The COVID-19 situation, war and political violence have contributed to the fleeing of their homes by 82.4 million around the world. so much but
During the coronavirus pandemic, the number of people fleeing war and persecution continued rising last year, with global displacement climbing to over 82 million – double the figure a decade ago, the United Nations said on Friday.
A new report from the UN refugee agency showed global displacement figures swelled by around three million in 2020 after an already record-breaking year in 2019, leaving a full one percent of humanity uprooted and displaced.
” It was thousands of small solidarity acts that helped relieve the pain of exile caused by political failures” UN High commissioner for refugees Fillipo Grandi said.
The report highlighted how crises like those in Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen were continuing to force people to flee, while eruptions of violence in places like Ethiopia due to the Tigray killings and Mozambique were causing surging displacement.
During the pandemic, ‘everything else has stopped, including the economies, but wars and conflict and violence and discrimination and persecution, all the factors that pushed these people to flee, have continued,’’ UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi said in a statement.
In 2020 (a year of lockdowns!) 82.4 million were forced to flee – 3 million more than in 2019.
COVID-19 stopped so much but war, discrimination and violence continued.
It was thousands of small solidarity acts that helped relieve the pain of exile caused by political failures. pic.twitter.com/cWsrSVj23J
— Filippo Grandi (@FilippoGrandi) June 18, 2021
The UN agency report reveal that by end of 2020, a record 82.4 million people were living as refugees or asylum seekers.
The report paints a sad state of how the political violence born out crisis created by political infighting and instability created out of power wrangles has led to internal displacement within their own countries more than as did by the coronavirus situation, up from some 40 million in 2011.
The report further reveals that girls and boys under the majority age of 18 years form 42% of the world’s displaced.
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