The number of people forcibly displaced jumped 19 million last year to a record high and has since been pushed further to a total of 110 million
The increase of around 19 million people to 108.4 million by the end of last year is the biggest annual jump on record, UNHCR said in a report released on Wednesday. That number has since risen further to 110 million, mostly due to Sudan's eight-week-old conflict, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi told journalists.
"Solutions to these movements are increasingly difficult to even imagine, to even put on the table," he said. "We are in a very polarised world, where international tensions play out all the way into humanitarian issues." Grandi blamed "the usual package of causes" which he said were conflict, persecution, discrimination, violence and climate change. Of the total refugees and those needing international protection, about half of them came from just three countries: Syria, Ukraine and Afghanistan.
"We see increasingly a reluctance on the part of states to fully adhere to the principles of the convention, even states that have signed it," Grandi told Reuters on the sidelines of the briefing.reached by EU ministers last week on sharing responsibility for migrants and refugees.
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