Geneva – The United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Refugees reported that the variety of displaced individuals reached 120 million globally as of Could 2024.
This got here in a UNHCR report on the displacement motion for the 12 months 2024, yesterday, Wednesday, during which it indicated that final 12 months’s numbers reached new historic ranges all through the world.
The Fee careworn that the continuing conflicts in Sudan, the Gaza Strip and Myanmar have led to new displacement operations and that an “pressing” answer have to be discovered.
She identified that the variety of displaced individuals is equal to the inhabitants of Japan, which ranks twelfth by way of inhabitants density on the planet.
She acknowledged that the continuing conflicts in Sudan have contributed to a big enhance in displacement numbers.
She defined that greater than 7.1 million Sudanese have been displaced inside the nation since April 2023, and that 1.9 million Sudanese have migrated to neighboring international locations.
She careworn that Syria nonetheless represents the “largest displacement disaster” on the planet, with 13.8 million individuals displaced inside and outdoors Syria.
The United Nations Reduction and Works Company for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) indicated that roughly 1.7 million individuals in Gaza (75 % of the inhabitants) have been displaced because of the conflict within the Strip by the tip of 2023.
For his half, the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, stated: “Numerous humanitarian tragedies lie behind these more and more massive numbers.”
He added: “These tragedies ought to urge the worldwide group to take pressing motion to fight the basis causes of the displacement drawback.”
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2024-06-14 21:50:59
