Every day 32,000 persons became refugees due to conflicts in year 2013
32,000 persons became refugees every day in year 2013
Islamabad, Pakistan: As many as 32,000 persons every day had to abandon their homes to seek protection due to conflicts in 2013, indicates The Millennium Development Goals Report 2014.
By the end of 2013, a record high of 51 million people were displaced forcibly worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, generalized violence and human rights violations. These displaced consisted of 16.7 million refugees, of whom 11.7 million fell under the responsibility of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and 5 million were Palestinian refugees registered with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). An additional more than 1.1 million individuals were waiting for decisions on their asylum applications by year-end. Another 33.3 million people uprooted by violence and persecution remained within the borders of their own countries.
Conflicts during the year such as those in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, the Syrian Arab Republic, and the border area between South Sudan and Sudan, among others, have forced an average 32,000 people per day to abandon their homes and seek protection elsewhere.
Developing countries, many of them poverty stricken, continue to shoulder the largest burden. They hosted 86 per cent of refugees under the UNHCR mandate, compared to 70 per cent a decade ago. Afghanistan (2.55 million), the Syrian Arab Republic (2.47 million) and Somalia (1.12 million) were the three main source countries of refugees under UNHCR responsibility, accounting for more than half of the total. The Syrian Arab Republic became a main source of refugees during 2013 as a result of the dramatic humanitarian situation in that country.
More than half of the world’s refugees nowadays are housed in urban areas and not in camps, compared to approximately only one third a decade ago.
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32,000 persons became refugees every day in year 2013
32,000 persons became refugees every day 2013
