Number of displaced people rises to record 65 million

[Sally]

This is much worse than what happened after World War II. Does anyone think that the majority of these people will ever return to the country of their origin?


Number of displaced people rises to record 65 million
NO ‘PLAN B’:On average 24 people were displaced every minute of every day last year, with more than half of those people coming from Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia
AP, GENEVA, Switzerland




The UN refugee agency said persecution and conflict in places like Syria and Afghanistan raised the total number of refugees and internally displaced people worldwide to a record 65.3 million at the end of last year.

The previous year, 2014, had already seen the highest number of refugees worldwide since World War II, with 60 million displaced people, but last year — when Europe staggered under the arrival of large numbers of refugees — topped that record by nearly 10 percent, the UNHCR said yesterday in unveiling its annual Global Trends Report.

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Number of displaced people rises to record 65 million - Taipei Times?

 

[aris2chat]

far too many. This is what the world is coming to

 

[MarathonMike]

But but the Arab Spring? THe Muslim "Brotherhood"? Kumbaya? What happened Obama?

 

[waltky]

10+ Million People Displaced in First Half of 2016...

Report: More Than 10 Million People Displaced in First Half of 2016
September 16, 2016 - More than 10 million people have been displaced across the globe in the first half of 2016, with Syria, Yemen and Turkey topping the list, according to estimates compiled by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC).

From January to August, the IDMC report said armed conflict displaced 900,000 people in Syria, 478,000 in Yemen and another 355,000 in Turkey. Millions more have fled because of sudden disasters: flooding displaced two million people in China and another 946,000 in Indonesia.

Internally displaced Syrian girls carry water containers in Jrzinaz camp in the southern part of Idlib, Syria​

The group tracked internally displaced people (IDPs) in 16 countries, and said IDPs currently comprise two-thirds of the 60 million people displaced by conflict and violence. And it warned that many refugees begin as IDPs, leaving their homes first inside their country in search of safety and assistance, only to later choose or be forced across a border.

The report's release came just ahead of the U.N. General Assembly's Summit for Refugees and Migrants, set to open Monday. IDMC issued a stark condemnation of the summit for not including the record spike in the number of internally displaced persons, an issue it said is the root of the global refugee problem.

Report: More Than 10 Million People Displaced in First Half of 2016

 

[waltky]

War, disease and malnutrition affect children the most...

UN: More than 7 Million Children Displaced in West, Central Africa Every Year
July 04, 2017 - More than 7 million children in West and Central Africa are displaced every year, the United Nations children's agency said in a report released Wednesday.

Lack of economic opportunities, wars and climate change are forcing more than 12 million people in West and Central Africa to migrate annually, the report said. "Children in West and Central Africa are moving in greater numbers than ever before, many in search of safety or a better life," UNICEF regional director Marie-Pierre Poirier said.

Climate change is already a harsh reality in many parts of Africa, where rising temperatures and increasingly erratic rainfall have disrupted food production, fueled widespread hunger and forced farmers to abandon their land. A half-million people have crossed the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to Italy over the past four years, mainly sub-Saharan Africans who pay smugglers to shepherd them across the desert to Libya, and onward to Europe in unseaworthy dinghies.

Refugees from Central Africa wait in Cameroonian Garoua Boulaï border town for foods and clothes.​

But unlike displaced adults, most of the children remain in sub-Saharan Africa, with less than 1-in-5 attempting the perilous journey to Europe. "Unless the long-term planning of governments and civil society is equipped to anticipate these climate shocks and subsequent migration, the unmitigated impact of these forces will create detrimental outcomes for children across the region," the report said.

It urged all governments, in West and Central African and Europe to make unaccompanied minors a priority when drafting migrant policies; stop detention of migrant children; try to keep families together; and provide access to education and healthcare for the children. Globally, 65.6 million people are uprooted and nearly half of them are children, the U.N.'s refugee agency UNHCR says.

UN: More than 7 Million Children Displaced in West, Central Africa Every Year

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Malnourished Children at Risk of Death From Cholera in Yemen, Africa
July 04, 2017 — The U.N. children’s fund warns tens of thousands of malnourished children are at great risk in Yemen, Somalia and South Sudan, which are on the brink of famine.

UNICEF reports an estimated 4.7 million children in the three cholera-stricken countries are malnourished. Of these, UNICEF spokesman Christophe Boulierac tells VOA, more than one million are suffering from severe acute malnutrition. “Let me remind you that a child who is suffering from severe acute malnutrition are nine times more likely to die of disease than a well-nourished child," he said. "So, having cholera and diarrhea in countries where so many children are so fragile because of malnutrition among other things because of such a bad access to safe water is extremely worrying.”

A girl is treated for suspected cholera infection at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen​

Sudan outbreak

UNICEF says it also is extremely worried about an outbreak of acute watery diarrhea in Sudan, where the Federal Ministry of Health reports more than 20,000 cases of the disease, including over 400 deaths. Boulierac says the disease has spread to 14 of 18 states and children account for more than 20 percent of the affected population. “The situation in White Nile State, which is in central Sudan, is deeply worrying, since it is the most affected with 7,200 reported cases and since it has almost 100,000 refugees living in camps,” he said.

A South Sudanese child suffering from cholera sits on a bed in Juba Teaching Hospital in Juba​

UNICEF says it needs access, security and more money to contain cholera and acute watery diarrhea in all four countries. It says aid operations must be scaled up. Malnourished children must receive special life-saving medication, therapeutic feeding and have access to safe drinking water.

Malnourished Children at Risk of Death From Cholera in Yemen, Africa

 

[The Great Goose]

thats disgraceful