There are over 53 million displaced or stateless people worldwide.
When the Games begin in Rio de Janeiro, the opening ceremony, on Friday, will pay tribute to the world's displaced and stateless persons.
The United Nations When the Games begin in Rio de Janeiro, the opening ceremony, on Friday, will pay tribute to the world's displaced and stateless persons.
Refugees, displaced and stateless people are particularly vulnerable to "the plague of human trafficking, which increasingly involves children subjected to the worst forms of exploitation". the Pope said.
Gogulski and Eva live together in his rented flat, which happens to be across the street from the International Organisation for Migration, the UN's agency for displaced and stateless persons.
By Manuel Moreno World Refugee Day, 20 June, is commemorated every year to recognize the desperate situation that approximately 42.5 million refugees, internally displaced and stateless people around the world face.
### Quotes from the co-convenors UNHCR "We have a collective responsibility to ensure education plans take into account the needs of some the most vulnerable children and youth in the world – refugees, internally displaced children, stateless children and children whose right to education has been compromised by war and insecurity.
Over the past day and a half, I've been meeting the men and women struggling to contain drug resistance and to extend access to healthcare to those on the Thai/Burma border who slip through most national programmes: the stateless, undocumented migrant workers, internally displaced people and refugees.
The PoC to the UNHCR are refugees, asylum-seekers, refugees returning home, stateless people and some internally displaced populations.
There are so many stateless populations in the world today, displaced from so many conflicts: Palestinians are the most famous example perhaps, but then there are Burmese refugees in Thailand, Tibetans in India, Congolese refugees in neighboring countries, and so on and on and on.
