REFUGIADOS
La cifra de desplazados en el mundo alcanza máximo de casi 69 millones
July 2, 2018 - Casi 69 millones de personas de todo el mundo – la cifra más alta registrada en la historia – fueron desplazados por la fuerza de sus hogares para fines de 2017 debido a la guerra y la persecución, según la agencia de la ONU para los refugiados
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said the continued crises in places like South Sudan and Congo, as well as the exodus of Muslim Rohingya from Myanmar that started last year, raised the overall figure of forced displacements in 2017 to 68.5 million.
Of that total, 16.2 million were newly displaced last year — an average of more than 44,000 people per day. Most have been displaced for longer than that, some forced to flee multiple times.
For the fourth year running, Turkey was again the country with the largest number of refugees — mostly Syrians — at 3.5 million at the end of 2017.