Adrian Edwards 🌍

Refugees, human rights, peace. Former UNHCR Regional Representative Australia & Pacific

[Adrian Edwards 🌍 @AdrianEdwrds]

@ggagnonn hi Georgette. Drop me a line if you have a moment via follow/DM.

[Peace One Day @PeaceOneDay]

We are Live! Peace One Day presents #PeaceDay https://t.co/lMZjSwljDJ

[Peace One Day @PeaceOneDay]

Peace One Day is proud to announce that @AdrianEdwrds, former UNHCR Representative for Australia & Pacific is marking #PeaceDay, 21 September, the UN International Day of Peace.

25 Years of Peace One Day.

#PeaceDayLive #21September #PeaceOneDay #PeaceDay #DoYourPeace

[Adrian Edwards 🌍 @AdrianEdwrds]

Today we had welcome news from New Zealand @MFATNZ of
NZ$2.5m in funds for the Regional Refugee Response for #Ukraine.

Funds for #refugees is real life saving help for a world that in 2024 is needing #peace more than ever. Thank you 🙏 New Zealand.

#NZAid @NZUNGVA @UNHCRgov

[Adrian Edwards 🌍 @AdrianEdwrds]

280 aid workers killed in 2023.

170+ so far in 2024.

150 injured or abducted.

Each life so precious. The impunity must end.

#WorldHumanitarianDay
#ActForHumanity

[Vicki Treadell @VickiTreadell]

Time to say farewell to another #diplomatic colleague, @AdrianEdwrds, Representative of @UNHCR_AusNZPac.
Thank you for all you have done - @NickCrouchUK & I wish you all the very best as you return to Geneva.
Bon Voyage.

[Adrian Edwards 🌍 @AdrianEdwrds]

@VickiTreadell @UNHCR_AusNZPac @NickCrouchUK @ukinaustralia @RefugeesMedia How kind. Thank you Vicki and wishing you too the very best. Glad to have shared this time together in Australia

[Adrian Edwards 🌍 @AdrianEdwrds]

A vital step towards resolving one of the world’a oldest and most forgotten #refugee situations - the approximately 14,000 West Papuan refugees in PNG. And a #GRF pledge too. Congrats #PNG

https://t.co/6aPQ3pD5L2

[Adrian Edwards 🌍 @AdrianEdwrds]

She did it! Congrats @CindyNgamba and @RefugeesOlympic

Historic moment for #refugees and for sports.

[Refugee Olympic Team @RefugeesOlympic]

@CindyNgamba appreciation post ❤️

Today, Cindy beat ex-World Champ Tammara Thibeault and qualified for the quarter-finals at #Paris2024.
Tammara gave Cindy a warm congratulatory hug, showcasing the best of the Olympic spirit!

#ForThe100Million

[Adrian Edwards 🌍 @AdrianEdwrds]

Great to see that #Australia is now a member of the new and growing Global Alliance on #Statelessness - set for launch in October. Good onya.

https://t.co/w6HO6J1NAW

[Craig Foster @Craig_Foster]

Sport has the power to change the lives of refugees.

And to promote a message of inclusion and compliance with international law.

It’s a message the world needs to hear, with so many pulling back from important benchmarks and conventions.

Opposing conflict, promoting climate action and upholding international law are also important because they ensure that less people are forcibly displaced.

Like the Afghan Women’s National Team @AfghanWnt, featured with Filippo Grandi in the @Olympics Opening ceremony.

Like all refugees, they’re an inspiration.

Congrats to @FilippoGrandi for important recognition and visibility for all refugees around the world.

#PARIS2024

[Adrian Edwards 🌍 @AdrianEdwrds]

���Otto had been attempting from 1938 to migrate to the US, but the lack of an asylum policy, and the lengthy process to acquire a visa meant the paperwork couldn’t be completed…’

3 years after WW2 the right to asylum became Article 14 of the UDHR. https://t.co/HyuHKJwYOF

[Adrian Edwards 🌍 @AdrianEdwrds]

Thank you Australia @dfat for this welcome help. Every cent will count.

Humanitarian aid for the Horn of Africa region is critically needed. For Sudan alone, with its 9.3m forcibly displaced, funding at end May was at 16% of needs. https://t.co/m3fEJKtUA0

[Adrian Edwards 🌍 @AdrianEdwrds]

At the end of 2023, almost 3 in 4 forcibly displaced people were living in countries with high-to-extreme exposure to climate-related hazards.

[UN News @UN_News_Centre]

Four in five people around the world want their countries to step up efforts to address climate change, @UNDP’s #PeoplesClimateVote shows

Read more in our story ⤵️
https://t.co/ZIgHsqSKrK

[Babar Baloch @iBabarBaloch]

UNHCR with our partners helping 8,000 Rohingya refugees affected by landslides in the Cox’s Bazar refugee settlements in Bangladesh.
https://t.co/R7N4yyW5Kp

[Adrian Edwards 🌍 @AdrianEdwrds]

Protecting people who flee danger, or protecting ourselves against people fleeing danger?

International human rights and refugee law (and common sense too) is clear. There really is only one right answer.

#RefugeeDay #WithRefugees

[UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency @Refugees]

On #WorldRefugeeDay, UN rights experts call on States to resist the politics of fear and exclusion and work together to protect the critical, fundamental rights of people to seek and enjoy asylum.

https://t.co/34JrZ87XDD

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

On #WorldRefugeeDay, let's reaffirm the world’s collective responsibility in assisting & welcoming refugees, in upholding their human rights - including the right to seek asylum - and ultimately, in resolving conflicts so that those forced from their communities can return home.

[Adrian Edwards 🌍 @AdrianEdwrds]

Exciting start to #WorldRefugeeDay at the Bread & Butter Project here in Sydney - where @AlboMP & @andrewjgiles joined the refugee bakers to lend a hand. Apparently the croissants were great too…

#RefugeeDay #WithRefugees

[Anthony Albanese @AlboMP]

Dorna came here as a refugee from Iran. She’s made Australia her home, and she's contributing to our community.

Today, she told me she’s landed her dream job.

Dorna’s earning a Certificate II in Baking while working here at The Bread and Butter Project.

[UNHCR Australia, New Zealand & Pacific @UNHCR_AusNZPac]

8/8 Thank you to everyone who attended the 2024 #WorldRefugeeDay celebration in Fiji! @homeaffairsfj @IHGhotels @DLA_Piper