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Milhões obrigados a fugir de casa apesar da Covid

By Jordi Bou

June 18, 2021 - As Nações Unidas dizem que o número de pessoas obrigadas a fugir de suas casas duplicou nos últimos dez anos para atingir 82,4 milhões, apesar das restrições de movimento durante a pandemia global.

According to the annual report by the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR, conflict and the impact of climate change in places such as Mozambique, Ethiopia’s Tigray region and Africa’s broad Sahel area were among the leading sources of new movements of refugees and internally displaced people in 2020.

They added hundreds of thousands more people to the overall count, which has for years been dominated by the millions who have fled countries such as Syria and Afghanistan due to protracted wars or fighting.

The report said that at the end of last year there were 5.7 million Palestinians, 3.9 million Venezuelans and an additional 20.7 million refugees from various other countries displaced abroad. Another 48 million people were internally displaced in their own countries. Some 4.1 million more sought asylum.

Nearly 70% of those affected are from just five countries – Syria, Venezuela, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Myanmar .

UNHCR said now 1% of all humanity is displaced, and there are twice as many forcibly displaced people than a decade ago. Some 42% of them were aged under 18, and nearly 1 million babies were born as refugees between 2018 and 2020.

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PUBLISHED: 18/06/2021; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Getty Images
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