By ARAB NEWS

JEDDAH: The International Islamic Relief Organization-Saudi Arabia (IIROSA) has called on governments and international aid agencies to pay greater attention to the plight of displaced people around the world.

In a statement issued on the occasion of the World Refugee Day on Monday, which is being marked this year with the slogan, “One Refugee, Without Hope, Is Too Many,” Adnan Khalil Basha, secretary-general of IIROSA, underlined the noble objectives of the event and urged all governments and humanitarian organizations at local, regional and international levels to provide relief assistance consisting of foodstuffs, medicines, clothes and accommodation facilities to refugees and displaced people, especially those who were forced by recent political events in a number of Arab and African countries to leave their homes.

Basha further stated that despite its limited resources, IIROSA has extended more than SR1 billion to about 22 million refugees in 42 countries through 1,057 relief campaigns.