Saturday, June 21, 2014
world refugees top 50 million in 2013 - worse than in WW-II
RT | The number of people who fled their homes across the globe in 2013 is
over 50 million for the first time since World War II, a new UN report
says. Amnesty International blamed the UN for ineffective or delayed
responses to ongoing conflicts.
In total, there were registered 51.2 million refugees, asylum
seekers and internally displaced people last year. On average,
32,200 people fled their homes each day, according to the report
by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, titled “War’s Human
Cost.”
"We are witnessing a quantum leap in forced displacement in
the world," António Guterres, head of the UN's refugee
agency, told The Guardian.
A total of 16.7 million people are refugees. Apart from 5 million
Palestinians, Afghans, Syrians and Somalis are 50 percent, with
the main host countries Pakistan, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan and
Turkey.
Then, about 1.2 million people sought asylum to mostly developed
countries, and Germany was the largest recipient. Most of the
asylum seekers were from Syria, Democratic Republic of Congo and
Myanmar.
Finally, internally displaced people were a historic 33.3 million
people – forced to flee their homes, but staying within their
country’s borders.
Over 50 percent of the refugees are children, with many of them
traveling alone and some falling into the hands of human
traffickers – that’s according to the UNHCR annual global trends
report, issued Friday.
More than 25,000 children asked for asylum in 77 countries last
year, and according to the document, it’s just a small percentage
of the number of displaced children around the world.
The main causes for the jump in figures are climate change,
population growth, urbanization, food insecurity and water
scarcity. In many cases, the causes are combined with each other.
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