Celebrate World Refugee Day with us!

Join us on Tuesday 20th June from 5pm in Dublin

How we treat people - especially the most vulnerable - will be the real decider when it comes to our success or otherwise in the struggle for climate justice. 

In the hot and stormy future, we have already made inevitable through our past emissions, an unshakeable belief in the equal rights of all people and a capacity for deep compassion will be the only things standing between civilization and barbarism.
- Naomi Klein

We take this belief in the equal rights of all people and the need for deep compassion very seriously at Friends of the Earth. Refugees and migrants have so much to contribute to our country and to our climate movement. And we need to celebrate this!

We’re delighted to be joining groups from across Ireland to celebrate World Refugee Day next Tuesday, 20th June, with the Movement of Asylum Seekers of Ireland.

Join us to celebrate World Refugee Day

Our Friends of the Earth group will be meeting from 5 pm outside the Hugh Lane Gallery on Parnell Square, Dublin 1 and will join the main celebration event at the Garden of Remembrance at 5.30 pm. Come down anytime from 5 pm and look out for Rosi, Deirdre, Oisin and Emma Jayne who will be representing our staff team!

Feel free to just show up on the day - but if you RSVP here it will give us a useful idea of numbers and we’ll know to look out for you. Here's a Google Maps link to our meet up location for Tuesday. We'll then walk as a group to the main event, which starts at 5.30 pm at the Garden of Remembrance. 

If you can’t make it to Dublin you’ll find a great list of events that are taking place across the country to celebrate World Refugee Week here, which runs from 19th to 25th June. You’ll also find some other ideas for actions you can take to stand in solidarity with refugees during this special week.

Find an event near you to celebrate Refugee Week

Why is Refugee Week important to us?

The climate movement would be nothing without diversity. In the Global North we owe so much to climate justice activists from across the Global South. They’ve been fighting the climate crisis and its root causes for decades. Teaching us so much about the real causes of climate breakdown - and its solutions. 

As campaigners for environmental justice in Ireland, we believe that climate breakdown, racism and economic inequality are deeply linked. We see this every day.

Fossil fuel companies, and the governments that enable them to extract huge profits, bear responsibility for displacing people from their homes and accelerating conflict all over the globe. People in the Global South are facing the worst of these impacts - many fossil fuel companies from the global North extract in the South, causing huge damage to local communites while exporting their profits to the North. Ireland is far from an innocent bystander in all of this - investors who support these fossil fuel companies - as well as some of these companies themselves -  are based in Ireland. 

Join us in Dublin to stand in solidarity with refugees

If you’re near Dublin on June 20th we really hope you can join us and celebrate the diversity in our communities and movements - and a vision for a world where people and nature thrive!