UN: Global displaced number 67 million
The global number of refugees and displaced people reached 67 million last year, the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday.
Tuesday, 17.06.2008.
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The global number of refugees and displaced people reached 67 million last year, the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday. "After a five year decline in the number of refugees between 2001 and 2005, we have now seen two years of increases, and that's a concern," said the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres. UN: Global displaced number 67 million "We are now faced with a complex mix of global challenges that could threaten even more forced displacement in the future." And conflict, bad governance, environmental degradation due to climate factors as well as inflation in food prices, threaten to uproot even more people being from their homes, he added. The number of refugees and internally displaced people under the UNHCR's care rose by 2.5 million in the year, reaching "an unprecedented 25.1 million" by the end of 2007. If refugees under the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA's care as well as other internally displaced people by conflict and disasters were added to the UNHCR's numbers, then the total number of uprooted people reached some 67 million last year, said the report. Afghanistan and Iraq continued to top the list of the country of origin. Almost 3.1 million refugees were Afghans or 27 percent of the global refugee population in 2007. Meanwhile, Iraqis made up the second largest group, with 2.3 million refugees. Of these, about two million had sought refuge in Jordan and Syria. "In Iraq, with the sectarian divide and the lack of a comprehensive political solution, the number of internally displaced rose from 1.8 million at the start of the year to close to 2.4 million by the end of 2007," said the report. The number of refugees who were repatriated voluntarily in 2007 was flat, at 731,000 against 734,000 in 2006. "Whereas the past decade has seen large-scale return movements of refugees, mainly due to the return of millions of Afghans, the total numbers of refugees who have returned during 2006 and 2007 were the second and third lowest of the past 15 years," said the report. Only in 2001 was the number lower, at 462,000.
UN: Global displaced number 67 million
"We are now faced with a complex mix of global challenges that could threaten even more forced displacement in the future."And conflict, bad governance, environmental degradation due to climate factors as well as inflation in food prices, threaten to uproot even more people being from their homes, he added.
The number of refugees and internally displaced people under the UNHCR's care rose by 2.5 million in the year, reaching "an unprecedented 25.1 million" by the end of 2007.
If refugees under the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA's care as well as other internally displaced people by conflict and disasters were added to the UNHCR's numbers, then the total number of uprooted people reached some 67 million last year, said the report.
Afghanistan and Iraq continued to top the list of the country of origin.
Almost 3.1 million refugees were Afghans or 27 percent of the global refugee population in 2007.
Meanwhile, Iraqis made up the second largest group, with 2.3 million refugees. Of these, about two million had sought refuge in Jordan and Syria.
"In Iraq, with the sectarian divide and the lack of a comprehensive political solution, the number of internally displaced rose from 1.8 million at the start of the year to close to 2.4 million by the end of 2007," said the report.
The number of refugees who were repatriated voluntarily in 2007 was flat, at 731,000 against 734,000 in 2006.
"Whereas the past decade has seen large-scale return movements of refugees, mainly due to the return of millions of Afghans, the total numbers of refugees who have returned during 2006 and 2007 were the second and third lowest of the past 15 years," said the report.
Only in 2001 was the number lower, at 462,000.
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