BANGALORE: For the first time since the Second World War era, more than 50 million people were forced to flee from their homes worldwide. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has released a new global trends report that states, every few seconds someone in the world is forced to flee. Refugee’s survival often depends on international assistance and protection.
The European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO) remains committed to helping these people in need, organizing a significant part of its humanitarian budget for this cause – €546 million or 42 percent of its 2013 budget. ECHO supported projects for refugees in 33 countries addressing basic needs for human survival with shelter, food, nutrition and clean water.
The alarming figures released show a new global record with more than 51 million people forcibly scattered around the world, 16.7 million people have become refugees, 33.3 million were internally displaced and 1.2 million sought asylum according to UNHCR's Global Trends 2013 report. Adding to this tragedy 50 percent of the refugee populations are children below 18 years old.
Every year, natural disasters, conflicts and human rights violations force millions of people to flee from destruction, violence and persecution. Syria’s civil war alone has forced nine million people to flee their homes, with nearly three million escaping abroad while more than 6.5 million have been displaced within Syria. The biggest population of refugees were Afghans, Syrians and Somalis, and refugees have found shelter in developing countries hosting the largest number of refugees were Pakistan, Iran and Lebanon, whose stability is threatened by the raging Syrian war now in its fourth year.
According to Antonio Guterres, High Commissioner for Refugees, said that it’s time for governments in developed countries to stop thinking in terms of ‘us and them’. Refugees and asylum seekers have often endured terrible ordeals-they deserve to be protected and treated with humanity and dignity. Conflicts are multiplying, more and more and at the same time old conflicts seem never to die.
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