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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Sudan emergency
Intense fighting has broken out in Sudan, with reports of civilians killed and injured in multiple parts of the country.
Prices of food, fuel and other basic goods are reportedly skyrocketing, making critical goods unaffordable for many people. Despite attempts at ceasefires, people are being displaced amid the clashes and are fleeing to neighbouring countries like Chad and South Sudan, in urgent need of basic relief items and shelter.
UNHCR teams are on the ground to meet new arrivals and provide life-saving assistance. But as the fighting displaces more people, support is urgently needed to scale up the response.
Emergency teams deployed to border crossing points in Chad and South Sudan
Supplies of basic relief items like soap and sleeping mats bolstered
Reception centres established to register and identify vulnerable new arrivals
UNHCR Annual Global Trends Report
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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.