IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1314 
Reaffirming the importance of the United States promoting the safety, health, 
and well-being of refugees and displaced persons in the United States 
and around the world. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 21, 2024 
Mr. LIEU (for himself, Mr. NADLER, Ms. JAYAPAL, Mr. CONNOLLY, Ms. 
DELBENE, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Mr. MCGOV-
ERN, Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Ms. OMAR, Mr. CARTER of Louisiana, Ms. 
TOKUDA, Ms. LEE of California, Ms. NORTON, Mrs. TORRES of Cali-
fornia, Mr. THANEDAR, Ms. JACOBS, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. 
MULLIN, Ms. TLAIB, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Mr. CLEAVER, Ms. WILLIAMS of 
Georgia, Mr. GOLDMAN of New York, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Ms. GARCIA 
of Texas, Mr. TRONE, Mrs. RAMIREZ, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. GREEN of 
Texas, Mr. DESAULNIER, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mrs. TRAHAN, Ms. 
KAMLAGER-DOVE, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. AMO, Ms. 
DEAN of Pennsylvania, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. COHEN, Ms. BUSH, Ms. 
MCCLELLAN, Mr. EVANS, Mr. POCAN, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Ms. 
BONAMICI, Ms. ADAMS, Ms. CHU, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. KHANNA, Ms. 
MOORE of Wisconsin, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. TONKO, Ms. 
PORTER, Ms. LEE
of Pennsylvania, Mrs. BEATTY, Ms. LEGER 
FERNANDEZ, and Ms. TITUS) submitted the following resolution; which 
was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the 
Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined 
by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Reaffirming the importance of the United States promoting 
the safety, health, and well-being of refugees and dis-
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placed persons in the United States and around the 
world. 
Whereas June 20, 2024, is an international day designated 
by the United Nations as ‘‘World Refugee Day’’, to rec-
ognize refugees around the globe and celebrate the 
strength and courage of people who have been forced to 
flee their homes to escape conflict or persecution due to 
their race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or mem-
bership in a particular social group; 
Whereas July 28, 2024, is the 73d anniversary of the adop-
tion of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, 
held at Geneva on July 28, 1951, which defines the term 
‘‘refugee’’ and outlines the rights of refugees and the 
legal obligations of nation states to protect such rights; 
Whereas, in 2024, the United Nations High Commissioner 
for 
Refugees 
(referred 
to 
in 
this 
resolution 
as 
‘‘UNHCR’’) reported that— 
(1) there are more than 117,000,000 displaced peo-
ple who have been forced from their homes worldwide, 
which is more displaced people than at any other time in 
recorded history, including more than 31,600,000 refu-
gees, 6,900,000 asylum seekers, and 68,300,000 inter-
nally displaced persons; 
(2) 75 percent of all refugees worldwide are hosted 
in low- and middle-income countries and fewer than 1 
percent of refugees are ever resettled; 
(3) 73 percent of the world’s refugees originate from 
5 countries, namely Afghanistan, Syria, Venezuela, 
Ukraine, and Sudan; 
(4) more than 50 percent of the population of Syria 
(approximately 13,800,000 people) have been internally 
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or externally displaced since the beginning of the Syrian 
civil war in 2011; 
(5) as of June 2024, 9,700,000 Ukrainians are dis-
placed as a result of Russia’s ongoing invasion of 
Ukraine, which includes 6,400,000 refugees and accounts 
for an estimated one-sixth of Ukraine’s prewar popu-
lation; 
(6) there are an estimated 6,400,000 Afghan refu-
gees around the world, of whom 90 percent are hosted in 
either Iran or Pakistan; 
(7) Latin America and the Caribbean currently host 
84 percent of the more than 7,000,000 Venezuelan refu-
gees and migrants, and the Americas currently host ap-
proximately 20,000,000 refugees, asylum seekers, and 
stateless people from around the world; 
(8) as of June 2024, more than 9,000,000 people 
are displaced due to the ongoing conflict in Sudan, in-
cluding nearly 2,000,000 refugees who have fled to neigh-
boring countries, many of whom are women or children; 
(9) as of May 2024, more than 360,000 people were 
internally displaced in Haiti due to widespread violence in 
the country; 
(10) between October 2023 and June 2024, approxi-
mately 75 percent of the population of Gaza (approxi-
mately 1,700,000 people) have been internally displaced 
due to the ongoing conflict; 
(11) as of April 2024, there were approximately 
6,800,000 internally displaced people in the Democratic 
Republic of the Congo as a result of violence between 
armed groups; 
(12) as of May 2024, nearly 1,000,000 Rohingya 
refugees resided in Bangladesh, with thousands more dis-
placed throughout the region, and an estimated 45,000 
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