The Americas at a crossroads: UNHCR and IOM call for a collaborative response to refugees and migrants
The Americas at a crossroads: UNHCR and IOM call for a collaborative response to refugees and migrants
Genesis Gonzalez, 29, hugs her four-year-old daughter after making the perilous journey through the Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama.
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by mid-2022 as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations or events seriously disturbing public order.
Low- and middle-income countries hosted 74 per cent of the world’s refugees and Venezuelans displaced abroad.*
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Türkiye-Syria Earthquake
Devastating earthquakes have affected families in Türkiye and Syria—your urgent response is needed to save lives.
Two powerful earthquakes have struck in south-eastern Türkiye and northern Syria. Thousands of people are confirmed dead, with numbers expected to rise. Syrians displaced inside their own country were already living in flimsy shelters and partially destroyed buildings—which are now completely gone. In Türkiye, the impact also includes thousands of refugees, and the communities that have been generously hosting them for nearly 12 years.
Families are in urgent need of relief items and shelter - UNHCR is on the ground delivering urgent assistance.
can provide a warm winter coat, gloves and boots to keep an earthquake victim in Türkiye warm.
will help us provide emergency relief items to a family affected by the earthquake in Syria.
could provide a tent to a family in Syria whose shelter has been destroyed by the earthquake.
UNHCR Annual Global Trends Report
DATA AND STATISTICS
UNHCR annual Global Trends report 2021
UNHCR's Global Trends report presents key statistical trends and the latest numbers of refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced and stateless persons.
If ongoing conflicts remain unresolved and the risks of new ones erupting are not reined in, one aspect that will define the twenty-first century will be the continuously growing numbers of people forced to flee and the increasingly dire options available to them.