The #WithRefugees World Tour

To mark the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, sport demonstrations, cultural activities, and a #whitecard torch relay will be held in Za’atari Refugee Camp in Jordan.

Nine Chicago designers will debut original runway looks highlighting RefuSHE’s artisan-made fabric created in Nairobi, Kenya by refugees.

Letters of Love in collaboration with #UNHCR Turkey will be celebrating National Sovereignty and Children’s Day (23 April) in Turkey with letters from around the world being delivered to over 2000 refugee children.

The ITTF presents its recently established non-profit Foundation aiming to use Table Tennis for positive social outcomes worldwide. One of the first projects targets Syrian refugees in Jordan.

Representatives from more than 30 different companies will attend the city’s largest and most influential biannual multi-sector recruitment event. Talented newcomers to Canada including refugees will be connected with local employers.

From the 9th to the 13th of May, Turquoise Mountain and Pippa Small will be hosting a series of events with designers and artisans for London Craft Week, looking at the importance of design in development.

The 71st Festival de Cannes will be held from 8 May to Saturday 19 May 2018. UNHCR is hosting a series of events, including a film screening and panel discussion, designed to bring attention to the refugee cause.

The football match on 13 May, 2018 is the final match of a 3-week tournament for asylum seekers and refugees from Piedmont CAS and SPAR, began in which 18 refugee teams will play in the football pitch (Impianto Regaldi, via Monteverdi 4, Torino) in the heart of the “Barrieradi Milano”, one of the biggest multicultural neighborhood in Turin.

An Irish welcome dinner for refugees in Ireland – this is part of the Refugee Food Festival in Ireland. It will be held at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral.

Know Your Rights is a legal empowerment project set up by DLA Piper for asylum seekers and refugees in Europe. Participants receive weekly training on various legal issues and their rights.

An Open Mic event for refugee writers based across Europe which will form part of PEN International’s global campaign – Make Space – which champions the rights, contributions and creativity of exiled and displaced writers.

A lunchtime panel event with refugee and displaced writers from Africa, Asia and the Middle East will feature as part of the transformative annual Oslo freedom forum where the world’s most engaging human rights advocates, artists, tech entrepreneurs,

The International Finance Corporation, the European Think Tank Group, and UNHCR are convening an event on the role that the private sector can play in providing innovative solutions to empower refugees and host communities in developing countries.

The Refugee Football Cup will mobilise around 300 refugees and asylum seekers who all share a love for the beautiful game and will be held from 3 June through August 2018. Events will be held in Porto Alegre, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro and the final at the Pacaembu São Paulo Stadium.*

The international conference is designed to enhance the effectiveness in promoting the human rights of refugees and vulnerable migrants.

The first ever TEDx event in a refugee camp is designed to offer a different lens into the reality of life as a refugee, away from the images of devastation and suffering, and towards stories of resilience, of contribution and creativity.

For this year’s World Refugee Day, an exhibition in the premises of the youth info wienXtra shows the dreams of children who have fled their homes. The “Dream Diaries” portray the children and visualize artistically the realization of their dreams.

For the first time ever, UNHCR will host a special event at Art Basel to celebrate the creativity of refugees and the art world’s commitment to their cause.

Businesses and community leaders, and high profile supporters from the Australian arts, sport and entertainment sectors will come together to stand in solidarity with refugees at the Australia for UNHCR Breakfast, a flagship event in Australia’s marking of World Refugee Day. The event will be hosted by well-known ABC broadcaster and journalist Kumi Taguchi, with New South Wales State Premier The Hon.

No Stranger Place is a series of stories profiling refugees and their hosts across Europe, developed by photographer Aubrey Wade. The project was born out of a desire to respond, as so many volunteers and ordinary people had, to the unfolding European refugee crisis.

The Historical Museum in Bern – currently hosting the exhibition DISPLACED by UNHCR, Swiss government agency for Development and Cooperation, Swiss State Secretariat for Migration and Swiss Federal Commission for Migration – will celebrate Einstein’s refugee past, his contribution to pacifism and to humanity at large on the occasion of World Refugee Day.

The International Basketball Foundation invites locals and refugees to come together to play in the biggest 3×3 basketball grassroots tournament in Switzerland, where they will also be able to visit the House of Basketball retracing the history of the sport and FIBA.

Achilleas Souras’s installation is a response to the current global refugee crisis that the world is facing. It proposes the re-use of a by-product of this crisis which is the common life jacket to provide low-cost temporary shelters to help refugees.

Mauritania will be celebrating the resilience of displaced populations in areas at risk of drought and the ones who host them with a public concert on 20 June at the French Cultural Institute (IFM) by refugee Malian band Taflist.

Fair Play Football Cup organised Sport Against Racism Ireland, and UNHCR brings together over 20 teams of men and women playing in the annual tournament at the Law Society Gardens in Dublin.

UNHCR will be bringing attention to the refugee cause at this year’s Jeju Peace Forum, including through a speech by UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Jung Woo-sung.

UNHCR Sri Lanka with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and assistance of diplomatic missions based in Colombo plan to hold a film festival highlighting the plight of refugees from 29 June to 1 July 2018.

UNHCR and WeWork teamed up in 2017 to begin a refugee recruitment programme in the UK. For Refugee Week 2018, this engagement and action day invites leading private sector figures and the general public to learn more about how to support refugees.

375 passionate youth advocates from around the world will convene for the 7th annual Girl Up Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. For three jam-packed days, these young change-makers will participate in leadership training, learn from influential speakers, engage in skills-based workshops, and lead an official lobby day on Capitol Hill.

The Paleo Festival is Switzerland’s largest outdoor music festival. The five day event attracts more than 200,000 people and features music from dozens of bands. This year UNHCR will have a stand where concert goers can show their support for refugees and speak with UNHCR staff.

Each summer, the world’s top female tennis players battle on the clay court of the Roy Emerson Arena. More than 35’000 people come to the Bernese Oberland to attend the «Wimbledon of the Alps». This year UNHCR is partnering with this event.

Roverway is an international Scouting and Guiding event organised by Scouting Nederland in partnership with Europe Region WAGGGS (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts) and WOSM (World Organisation of the Scout Movement) European Region.

The International Judo Federation (IJF) is working with the Judo Association of South Africa to provide a peace programme for refugees living in Southern Africa.

Combatting Xenophobia, Nationalism and Populism will be discussed along with how these impact on the Refugee crisis and the life of refugees worldwide.

As the largest nonpartisan convening on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, the 2018 Concordia Annual Summit in New York City will continue to host inclusive and action-driven discussions on addressing the refugee crisis with high-level representatives from across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.

A series of events for general public and a tailor-made programme for schools all over Austria organized by UNHCR in cooperation with NGOs, municipalities, museums, sports clubs, cinemas, libraries etc. Easily accessible and a huge variety of events free of charge, where visitors have the opportunity to learn about the topic of asylum and get directly in touch with refugees and asylum-seekers.