World Refugee Day Statement – 20 June 2025 “From Denial to Dignity: Reclaiming Rights and Building a Future with Refugees”
As we mark World Refugee Day 2025, the world stands at a critical crossroads in its treatment of those who are forcibly displaced. This day is not just a moment of remembrance, it is a call to action, a political imperative, and a moral obligation to challenge systems of exclusion, abandonment, and violence that millions of refugees face every day. Today, more than 110 million people worldwide are forcibly displaced due to war, persecution, climate crises, and systemic inequalities. Among them, just 36.9 million are officially recognized as refugees. Yet instead of protection, they are too often met with walls, pushbacks, and silence. Recent funding cuts, such as those initiated by the US administration and still felt across global humanitarian programs, have jeopardized essential refugee services. This lack of political will and financial commitment is leaving countless people without access to food, healthcare, education, or safety. The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Europe joins all those who stand in solidarity with forcibly displaced people and strongly denounces the current global and European response to the refugee situation. Policies of deterrence, externalization, and forced return dominate the agenda, while protection and integration are sidelined. This is not only a policy failure, but also a failure of humanity...
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