MORE THAN 1% OF HUMANITY FORCIBLY DISPLACED: UNHCR

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has warned that up to 80 million people have been forcibly displaced worldwide, a figure that represents one in every 97 persons or more than one percent of the global population.

Among the displaced are between 30 million and 34 million children, many of them unaccompanied, teleSUR reported early on June 19, 2020. The data, published ahead of the World Refugee Day on June 20, points out that "fewer and fewer of those who flee can return home.

The organization's annual Global Trend report highlights that 79.5 million were displaced at the end of last year. Out of that amount, 45.7 million people fled to other areas of their own countries. The rest were people displaced elsewhere, 4.2 million of them being people awaiting the outcome of asylum requests, while 29.6 million were refugees and others forcibly displaced outside their country.

Particularly, the UNHCR revealed that there has been a worrying new displacement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Sahel region, war-torn Yemen and Syria - which alone accounted for a sixth of the world's displaced.