A new study released today shows that 1.5 million people from nations driving major refugee movements were admitted by 35 countries and Brazil on family, work and study permits in the decade just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest report by and the OECD , titled , examines admissions from 2010 to 2019 of people from seven countries propelling displacement: Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Syria and Venezuela.
Displaced Persons and Refugees
Grandi praises Rwanda for offering life-saving haven for refugees
The Journey is a calling for global support of the Refugee Teams competing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Refugee Olympic and Paralympic athletes have a story like no other. Their stories highlight the power of sport to rebuild lives and bring hope to those forced to flee.
Over the past decade, millions of Syrians have been forced to flee their homes in what remains the worlds largest displacement crisis. Over 5.5 million Syrians are living as refugees in neighbouring countries, and 6.7 million are still displaced inside the country, including an estimated 2.5 million children. Syria is also currently experiencing one of the worst socio-economic downturns since the start of the crisis. In the past year alone, the Syrian pound has lost three quarters of its value while the cost of food and other essential items has rocketed by more than 200 per cent. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has made an already dire situation worse.
Hope and Beauty
Solidarity amidst extreme hardship
As rains approach, the race is on to get aid to thousands seeking safety in a remote village in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo. The insecurity and violence surrounding last Decembers elections have forced over 100,000 people like him to flee some into neighbouring Cameroon, Chad, the DRC and the Republic of the Congo, while around 100,000 people are displaced inside CAR. So far, and its government partner have registered over 22,000 people and will update the population figures based on actual registrations.
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In a data visualization project entitled Livelihoods, food and futures: COVID-19 and the displaced, collated statistics from numerous sources to shed more light on the effects of the pandemic on poor and vulnerable people. The storymap illustrates the drastic falls in levels of employment and income in within displaced communities since the onset of the pandemic. It also explores how families are coping to meet basic needs, in many cases forced to cut corners because of shrinking household budgets.
Comprising roughly half of the world's 272 million migrants, features migrant women as agents of change and leaders who contribute to their countries of origin and destination.
For most people, 2020 cannot end soon enough. The COVID-19 pandemic has killed nearly 1.8 million people and caused extreme hardship. As the year comes to an end and vaccinations begin, many are hopeful the virus can be contained. But the socioeconomic effects of the pandemic could be felt for years especially in the worlds least developed countries, where most of the worlds forcibly displaced people live. The remains hopeful. Forcibly displaced people have shown us what it means to be resilient, and what it takes to overcome a crisis.
At the beginning of 2020, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, challenged students to tackle issues related to forced displacement during their debates. The reward? Getting their best ideas shared with policy-makers. More than . They collectively drafted resolutions which were reviewed by a panel of experts and young refugees. Heres a and some of the thinking behind them.
Irrepressible comedian AK Dans was born in the worlds largest refugee camp, Kukuma, in Kenya, after his mother fled South Sudan in the 1990s.
This month, the turned 70 years old. For an organization that should have ceased to exist after three years, it is an uncomfortable birthday that it is not in the mood to celebrate. After WWII, UNHCR had the task of finding homes for Europes refugees. Brought into being on 1950, its mandate was time-limited and explicitly non-political, as if its existence was a reminder of miseries that were best swept away along with the rubble. Since, UNHCR has been called upon time and again to do whatever it can to protect vulnerable people uprooted from their homes.