![]() ![]() Of the 10.5 million refugees under UNHCR’s This translates to a new refugee or internally displaced person every 4.1 seconds.Īlso evident is a continuing gap between richer and poorer countries when itĬomes to who is hosting refugees. During 2012 some 7.6 million people became newly displaced, 1.1 million of them as refugees and 6.5 million as internally displaced people. The report highlights worrisome trends in several areas, one of which is the rate at which people are today being forced into situations of displacement. They reflect individual suffering on a huge scale and they reflect the difficulties of the international community in preventing conflicts and promoting timely solutions for them,” said António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees and head of UNHCR. ![]() The report also charts major new displacement from Mali, in Democratic Republic of the Congo, and from Sudan into South Sudan and Ethiopia. A full 55 per cent of all refugees listed in UNHCR’s report come from just five war-affected countries, namely Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, Syria and Sudan. This includes 15.4 million refugees, 937,000 asylum seekers(2), and 28.8 million people forced to flee within the borders of their own countries. ![]() The report shows that as of the end of 2012, more than 45.2 million people were in situations of displacement compared to 42.5 million at the end of 2011. UNHCR’s annual Global Trends report covers displacement that occurred during 2012 based on data from governments, NGO partners, and UNHCR itself. New UNHCR report says global forced displacement at an 18-year highĪ report released today by UNHCR, the UN’s refugee agency, says that more people are refugees or internally displaced than at any time since 1994(1), with the crisis in Syria having emerged as a major new factor in global displacement. ![]()
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