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U.N. Refugee Agency’s New Report Outlines Global Refugee and Resettlement Trends

Each year the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) releases a comprehensive report tracking forced displacement across the globe. The statistics are invaluable in understanding the magnitude of the challenges facing refugees, forcibly displaced communities, stateless people and migrants as they flee wars, persecution or human rights abuses. It also highlights the dimensions of the challenges facing agencies such as UNHCR that seek to help individuals and families in need. As described in the new report , here are the key facts, figures and trends for 2021: ‣  The number of refugees worldwide increased from 20.7 in 2020 to 21.3 million at the end of 2021, more than double the 10.5 million a decade ago. ‣  The number of Venezuelans displaced abroad also rose, from 3.9 million to 4.4 million, during the same period. ‣  89.3 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide at the end of 2021. ‣  That number represents a doubling of the 42.7 million who r...
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The Largest Refugee Crisis Today: Syria

Sadly there are many places in the world that are in crisis today: Nigeria, Eritrea, Somalia, Afghanistan. But the biggest refugee crisis in the world today remains Syria as it has been for the past decade.   More than a quarter of the world’s total refugee population are impacted by Syria’s ongoing conflict . Since 2011, more than 6.6 million Syrians have been forced to flee their country and another 6.7 million have been displaced within the country’s borders. Most Syrian refugees who have fled have ended up in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt. This long-standing refugee crisis is the result of a multi-sided civil conflict between the Syrian Arab Republic, led by president Bashar al-Assad, who is supported by domestic and foreign allies, against varying combinations of domestic and foreign forces that oppose the Syrian government–as well as each other. It is a tumultuous, violent, clash of forces that has taken an incredible toll on the people of Syria. The unrest s...
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