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More than 50 million displaced worldwide, U.N. says
More than 50 million people were forcibly uprooted worldwide at the end of last year, the highest
level since after World War Two, as people fled crises from Syria to South Sudan, the U.N. refugee
agency said on Friday.
Half are children, many of them caught up in conflicts
or persecution that world powers have been unable
to prevent or end, UNHCR said in its annual Global
Trends report.
"We are really facing a quantum leap, an enormous
increase of forced displacement in our world," U.N.
High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres
told a news briefing.
The overall figure of 51.2 million displaced people
soared by six million from a year earlier. They
included 16.7 million refugees and 33.3 million
displaced within their homelands, and 1.2 million
asylum seekers whose applications were pending.
Syrians fleeing the escalating conflict accounted for most of the world's 2.5 million new refugees last
year, UNHCR said.
In all, nearly 3 million Syrians have crossed into neighboring Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Jordan, while
another 6.5 million remain displaced within Syria's borders.
"We are seeing here the immense costs of not ending war, of failing to resolve or prevent conflict,"
Guterres said. "We see the Security Council paralyzed in many crucial crises around the world."
NEW AND OLD CRISES
Conflicts that erupted this year in Central African Republic, Ukraine and Iraq are driving more families
from their homes, he said, raising fears of a mass exodus of Iraqi refugees.
"A multiplication of new crises, and at the same time old crises that seem never to die," he added.
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Afghan, Syrian and Somali nationals accounted for 53 percent of the 11.7 million refugees under
UNHCR's responsibility. Five million Palestinians are looked after by a sister agency UNRWA.
Most refugees have found shelter in developing countries, contrary to the myth fueled by some
populist politicians in the West that their states were being flooded, Guterres said.
"Usually in the debate in the developed world, there is this idea that refugees are all fleeing north
and that the objective is not exactly to find protection but to find a better life.
"The truth is that 86 percent of the world's refugees live in the developing world," he said.
Desperate refugees and migrants from the Middle East and Africa have drowned after taking rickety
boats in North Africa to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe, mainly via Italy.
Italy has a mission, known as Mare Nostrum or "Our Sea", which has rescued about 50,000 migrants
already this year. Italy will ask the European Union next week to take over responsibility for rescuing
migrants, a task that is costing its navy 9 million euros ($12.25 million) a month.
"It is important to have a European commitment there and to make sure that such an operation can
be sustainable," said Guterres, a former prime minister of Portugal.
The EU bloc has harmonized its asylum system, but the 27 member states still differ in how they
process refugees and in their approval rates for asylum applications, he said.
A record 25,300 unaccompanied children lodged asylum applications in 77 countries last year,
according to UNHCR.
"We see a growing number of unaccompanied minors on all routes. We see them in the
Mediterranean routes, we see them in the Caribbean route, through Mexico to the United States, we
see them in the Afghan route into Iran, into Turkey, into Europe," Guterres said. "We see them
everywhere."
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