At 65.3 million, the UNCHR recorded a new high record on the number of refugees and estranged citizens all over the world for the year 2015. In its Global Trends report, the UN notes that 24 people were forced to flee per minute in 2015.
The continuous rise of the number of migrants and those unwillingly relocated had already begun in 2011. In 2015 the rise reached 9,7%. At the moment 1 in 113 people on this planet has been “forced to leave their place of origin, has been forcibly relocated within his country, is a refugee or has asked for asylum”, according to the UN high commission for the refugees.
More precisely there are 21,3 ml refugees in the world, while those forced to relocate within their own countries are 40,8 million.
“More people are being displaced by war and persecution and that’s worrying in itself, but the factors that endanger refugees are multiplying too,” said UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi.
“At sea, a frightening number of refugees and migrants are dying each year; on land, people fleeing war are finding their way blocked by closed borders. Closing borders does not solve the problem.”
“The willingness of nations to work together not just for refugees but for the collective human interest is what’s being tested today, and it’s this spirit of unity that badly needs to prevail,” he declared.