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At the end of 2014, there were more refugees than at any time in living memory. The U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHRA) reported that last year's total number of forcibly displaced persons rose to 59.5 million and 38.2 million of those were internally displaced, refugees in their own countries. The numbers reflect a world in chaos. "The primary driver of this nearly unprecedented level of human suffering was the civil war in Syria, now in its fifth year. [...] Today, one out of every four refugees is Syrian." Turkey is now hosting the world's largest refugee population of 1.59 million, the majority from neighboring Syria.
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Aleppo, Syria
Approximately 42,500 are displaced every day by warfare, protracted civil wars being the most damaging to the stability of a population, but war is not the only cause of chaos and displacement. Food and water scarcities, severely repressive regimes (e.g. Eritrea) and disease also contribute to the problem. Often, all factors are at work together. Human beings cannot tolerate living in such conditions without severe, long term physical and emotional damage and 2014 was the apex of misery in many parts of the world. This produces great strain on the surrounding countries and also on Europe - primarily beleaguered Italy - which is seeing an explosion in numbers of people desperate to escape terror and hunger by crossing the Mediterranean. In turn, many unstable and leaky boats, overloaded by human traffickers, capsize and have drowned thousands of people. About half of the world's refugees are children. "Never in recent memory have so many children been subjected to such unspeakable brutality," said UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake.
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A Syrian refugee family from Aleppo seek shelter during a rainy day on March 8, 2014, in the Uskudar district of Istanbul, Turkey.
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Conditions deteriorate steadily in Sudan, So. Sudan and other African countries, Yemen and Iraq. But, Syria is firmly on course for remaining the top producer of human misery in 2015.
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At the end of 2014, there were more refugees than at any time in living memory. The U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHRA) reported that last year's total number of forcibly displaced persons rose to 59.5 million and 38.2 million of those were internally displaced, refugees in their own countries. The numbers reflect a world in chaos. "The primary driver of this nearly unprecedented level of human suffering was the civil war in Syria, now in its fifth year. [...] Today, one out of every four refugees is Syrian." Turkey is now hosting the world's largest refugee population of 1.59 million, the majority from neighboring Syria.
Pakistan had previously held that distinction but slipped to second place in 2014, with 1.51 refugees. The Syrian civil war has placed an enormous strain on surrounding countries, which have absorbed 95 percent of those who have fled. The war has also contributed to Europe’s foremost refugee crisis: Of the 219,000 who attempted to cross the Mediterranean, nearly half were Syrians. (source)
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Aleppo, SyriaApproximately 42,500 are displaced every day by warfare, protracted civil wars being the most damaging to the stability of a population, but war is not the only cause of chaos and displacement. Food and water scarcities, severely repressive regimes (e.g. Eritrea) and disease also contribute to the problem. Often, all factors are at work together. Human beings cannot tolerate living in such conditions without severe, long term physical and emotional damage and 2014 was the apex of misery in many parts of the world. This produces great strain on the surrounding countries and also on Europe - primarily beleaguered Italy - which is seeing an explosion in numbers of people desperate to escape terror and hunger by crossing the Mediterranean. In turn, many unstable and leaky boats, overloaded by human traffickers, capsize and have drowned thousands of people. About half of the world's refugees are children. "Never in recent memory have so many children been subjected to such unspeakable brutality," said UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake.
UNHCR chart
...2014 saw another record broken that indicates the world’s refugee population is unlikely to soon markedly decrease. A mere 126,800 refugees were able to return home in 2014, the lowest number of returnees in 30 years. (source)
A Syrian refugee family from Aleppo seek shelter during a rainy day on March 8, 2014, in the Uskudar district of Istanbul, Turkey.
Photo by Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images
Conditions deteriorate steadily in Sudan, So. Sudan and other African countries, Yemen and Iraq. But, Syria is firmly on course for remaining the top producer of human misery in 2015.
More information at...
ForeignPolicy
Independent
UNRefugeeAgency
HuffingtonPost