VLUCHTELINGEN
MMeer dan één procent mensheid gedwongen ontheemd: VN
June 18, 2020 -
Een recordaantal van 79,5 miljoen mensen - meer dan één procent
van de mensheid - waren wereldwijd aan het eind van 2019 door
oorlog of vervolging ontheemd, zo meldt het vluchtelingenagentschap van de Verenigde Naties.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in its annual “Global Trends” report that the number of asylum-seekers, internally displaced people and refugees shot up by nearly nine million from a year earlier – the biggest rise in its records.
UNHCR says the surge is due to a new way of counting people displaced from Venezuela and a “worrying” new displacement in the persistent trouble spots of Congo, the Sahel region of Africa, Yemen and Syria, which alone accounted for more than 13 million people on the move.
While the total figure of people facing forced displacement rose from 70.8 million at the end of 2018, some 11 million people were “newly displaced” last year, with poorer countries among those most affected.
UNHCR says forced displacement has nearly doubled from 41 million people in 2010, and five countries – Syria, Venezuela, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Myanmar – are the source of nearly two-thirds of people displaced abroad.