Stateless persons have great difficulty crossing borders and are often marginalized, not having equal access to health care and opportunities in work and education. Refugee Council of Australia - Statelessness. What people say about persecution. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is a minute film about asylum seekers who make the journey to Australia by boat.
An abridged version 11 minutes is available for schools. The largest portion of UNHCR staff are based in countries in Asia and Africa, the continents that both host and generate the most refugees and internally displaced people. Many are in isolated locations where staff work in difficult - and often dangerous - conditions. On 17 December , the United Nations General Assembly approved the Global Compact on Refugees , a framework for more predictable and equitable responsibility-sharing, recognizing that a sustainable solution to refugee situations cannot be achieved without international cooperation.
When the Agency began operations in , it was responding to the needs of about , Palestine refugees. UNRWA has not changed and cannot change its mandate. That is the responsibility of UN Member States. Political solutions are difficult, which is why there remain, globally, a number of protracted refugee situations whereby successive generations continue to be recognized as refugees.
Under international law and the principle of family unity, the children of refugees and their descendants are also considered refugees until a durable solution is found. Both UNRWA and UNHCR recognize descendants as refugees on this basis, a practice that has been widely accepted by the international community, including both donors and refugee hosting countries. Palestine refugees are not distinct from other protracted refugee situations such as those from Afghanistan or Somalia, where there are multiple generations of refugees, considered by UNHCR as refugees and supported as such.
Protracted refugee situations are the result of the failure to find political solutions to their underlying political crises. The top five host countries, where these displaced people are currently located are: Turkey, Colombia, Germany, Pakistan, and Uganda. With 3. It demonstrates that huge numbers of displaced people stay close to their point of origin.
There are more than 48 million internally displaced people — people who have had to flee their homes in search of safety elsewhere within their home nation. The highest increases in the number of internally displaced people happened in Africa and were provoked by a combination of armed conflict and humanitarian disasters. In , , refugees were able to return to their home country, or found permanent homes in a third country. That fell to below , in as the pandemic made travel harder than ever, with lockdowns and border closures taking their toll.
An estimated , refugees were able to return to 30 countries of origin in , though. Most of those were people returning from Uganda, Sudan and Ethiopia.
The figures are hard to verify, the report says, as many people choose to return without seeking help from agencies. Since April , , Burundians have fled to neighbouring countries.
Some 40, people were able to return to Burundi in , most of whom came from Tanzania, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Despite the continuing instability of the situation there, 38, displaced people were reported to have returned to Syria in We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land we work on - the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and the Wurrundjeri people of the Kulin nation. We pay respects to elders past and present, and acknowledge sovereignty was never ceded.
Facebook Twitter Reddit Pinterest Email. Statistics Refugees in the world. This page uses Datawrapper to show interactive data. You can hover over the data, including countries on the maps, to get more detail, and download the data.
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