'All are welcome': Snohomish County celebrates World Refugee Day

LYNNWOOD — More than 100 community members celebrated World Refugee Day on Friday with food, performances and speeches at Edmonds College’s Brier Hall.

World Refugee Day takes place each year on June 20. It was first celebrated in 2001 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention, which internationally recognized refugees and outlined their legal rights.

Friday was the county’s fifth annual World Refugee Day celebration, said Van Dinh-Kuno, executive director of Refugee and Immigrant Services Northwest. It gets bigger each year, and the organization may have to find a bigger venue next year, she said.

“Hopefully, this tradition keeps going for 10 years, 20 years, 30 years and into the future,” Dinh-Kuno said.

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