One percent of humanity now displaced- UNHCR
Saeed Pourreza
PRESS TV, London
Every Action Counts is the theme of this year’s report by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees- UNHRC. More people around the world are now displaced than ever despite COVID-19 slowing movements. Prolonged military conflict is but one reason.
And it’s been happening everywhere, most recently in Syria. Now in its 10th year, the bloody conflict in the west Asian country has displaced millions of people, forcing them into camps.
From January 2015 to March 2016, more than a million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe, in what came to be known as the European Refugee Crisis.
The top three nationalities among them according to the UNHCR were Syrian, Afghan, and Iraqi; from countries grappling with civil war for years.
As millions of people await help to start a new life, the UN refugee agency has come up with a new message.
But taking effective action will be difficult. With wars and food insecurity ongoing in countries around the world and with governments scrambling to deal with the economic aftermath of the coronavirus, the future of millions of refugees continues to hang in the balance.
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