Test your knowledge: Take the Refugee Day Quiz
True or False?
1. A rich person cannot become a refugee.
2. Refugees are people who flee their countries and cannot return because they fear being persecuted due to race, religion, nationality, political opinion or belonging to a particular social group.
3. Women and children account for 75% of a given refugee population, and constitutes its most vulnerable group.
4. Internally displaced persons are people who have been uprooted within their own countries because of war, human rights violations or natural disasters.
5. Refugees are strangers in the asylum country, so the host government is not obliged to respect their human rights.
6. The previous and current Governor General of Canada came to Canada as refugees.
7. A person who flees from his/her country of origin without any documentation has no right to seek asylum.
8. Canada accepts 25,000-30,000 refugees every year.
9. Albert Einstein was a refugee.
