100 million people around the world are fleeing violence. This was announced by the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) on Monday. The number of displaced people had already risen to 90 million at the end of last year, according to the statement.
“It’s a record that should never have been reached,” said the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi. This must be “a wake-up call to resolve and prevent destructive conflicts, to end persecution and to combat the causes”.
show that one in four of the millions of displaced persons is under the age of 18. Between 2018 and 2020 alone, up to 350,000 children were born as refugees.
Humanitarian Aid: Relief rather than Cure
The reason for the sad record is not only the conflicts in Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Myanmar, Nigeria, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, some of which have been going on for years, but also the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine. According to the UNHCR, six million Ukrainians have left the country since the beginning of the war – eight million are fleeing within the country’s borders.
The international reactions to Ukrainian refugees were “overwhelmingly positive,” Grandi continued. In the end, however, humanitarian aid would not cure the problem, only alleviate it.
In the photo series a look at the (just some of the) conflicts that are robbing countless people of their homes.
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