The U.N. office on refugees found that by the end of last year, 1 in 69 people had been forced from their homes -- either within their own country or across an international border.
South Sudanese who fled from Sudan sit outside a nutrition clinic at a transit center in Renk, South Sudan, May 16, 2023. According to the U.N. migration agency the number of internally displaced people in Sudan has reached more than 10 million.
There are multiple factors driving these annual increases, Kelly Clements, the deputy high commissioner for the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, told NPR."We've got wars and conflicts that wage on without a solution in places like Afghanistan, Syria, now Ukraine, Venezuela, Myanmar — those are the protracted situations. And then we have new crises and new wars," says Clements.The conflict in Gaza, which exploded into the world's consciousness with the Oct.
The UNHCR report shows there were more IDPs worldwide at the end of 2023 — 68.3 million — than there were citizens of the United Kingdom.Refugees and displaced people often rely on some form of international support for their food or shelter — whether that comes directly from the UNHCR, from other U.N. agencies, from nonprofit groups or directly from foreign governments. But Clements says only very few of them try to travel far from their homes.
Over the course of 2023, the total number of people who found themselves forcibly displaced from their home for any one of several reasons — persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations or public disturbances — increased by 8.8 million.
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