Unrest last summer has motivated volunteers to work even harder to make people feel welcome, organisers of a city's annual refugee week have said. Sunderland Refugee Week runs until Sunday, with ...

EXCLUSIVE: Io Capitano, the latest feature from Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone, and Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border have joined the lineup of this year’s Refugee Week arts and culture festival, ...

Refugee Week is an annual celebration in the UK which runs for a week. Anyone is open to host an event, and every year people celebrate the many ways in which asylum seekers and refugees contribute to ...

Leading UK artists and creatives invite public to take part in building welcoming communities Some of the UK’s leading artists, actors and creatives are coming together for Refugee Week 2025 to ...

London, United Kingdom, June 17, 2024 — Ahead of Refugee Week (17th June – 23rd June) in the UK, International Rescue Committee (IRC) Ambassadors, actors Rami Malek and Indira Varma, visited the ...

The phrase 'refugees welcome' is often used to show support for people seeking safety from war and persecution having fled their home country. But what does it really mean to make refugees welcome and ...

This was the speech by John Wilkes of the Scottish Refugee Council at the launch of Refugee Week 2011. We liked it so much we asked for permission to reproduce it ...

Each year on 20 June, the world celebrates World Refugee Day, the designated international day to honour people who have been forced to flee conflict, war or persecution In Brussels, Refugee ...