World Refugee Day 2023: 25 Years of Support
- Jody McBrien
- Human Rights Articles

by Jody McBrien, AWG Paris and Human Rights Team Co-Chair
This year commemorates the 25th World Refugee Day. Twenty-five years ago, in 1998, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) recognized 6.2 million “refugees and persons of concern.”1 In 2023, this figure is 117.2 million.2 If this number were a country, it would be the 13th most populous on earth,3 just below...