‘Most of World’s Refugees – 86 per cent — Live in Developing Countries’
“Most of the world’s refugees – 86 per cent — live in the developing world, compared to 70 per cent 10 years ago. Most of these countries have kept their doors open to people in search of safety, and have shown a generosity that is often well beyond their means,” says UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
“I appeal to all Member States and our partners in civil society to do their utmost to support the nations and communities that have welcomed the forcibly displaced into their midst,” Ban said on occasion of World Refugee Day on 20 June 2015.
According to the UN, every minute eight people leave everything behind to escape war, persecution or terror.*
There are several types of forcibly displaced persons.
Refugees
A refugee is someone who fled his or her home and country owing to “a well-founded fear of persecution because of his/her race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion”, according to the United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention. Many refugees are in exile to escape the effects of natural or human-made disasters.
Developing countries host four-fifths of the world’s refugees. The 48 Least Developed Countries provide asylum to 2.3 million refugees.
Asylum seekers
Asylum seekers say they are refugees and have fled their homes as refugees do, but their claim to refugee status is not yet definitively evaluated in the country to which they fled.
Internally Displaced Persons
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are people who have not crossed an international border but have moved to a different region than the one they call home within their own country.
Stateless Persons
Stateless persons do not have a recognized nationality and do not belong to any country.
Statelessness situations are usually caused by discrimination against certain groups. Their lack of identification — a citizenship certificate — can exclude them from access to important government services, including health care, education or employment.
Returnees
Returnees are former refugees who return to their own countries or regions of origin after time in exile. Returnees need continuous support and reintegration assistance to ensure that they can rebuild their lives at home.
Facts and Figures
By the end of 2011:
- An estimated 43.3 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced due to conflict and persecution.
- Among refugees and people in refugee-like situations, children constituted 46 per cent of the population.
- 876,100 individual applications for asylum or refugee status were submitted in 171 countries or territories.
- The number of internally displaced persons, benefitting from UNHCR’s protection and assistance activities, was 15.5 million.
- UNHCR identified some 3.5 million stateless people in 64 countries. However, the actual number of stateless persons worldwide was estimated at up to 12 million.
Source: Protecting Refugees and the Role of UNHCR (September 2012)
*Source: UN.
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2015 Human Wrongs Watch
Source: http://human-wrongs-watch.net/2015/06/20/most-of-worlds-refugees-86-per-cent-live-in-developing-countries/
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