Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has pushed the number of displaced people worldwide to more than 100 million marks for the first time, the United Nations warned on Monday.
The number of 100 million is remarkable, disturbing and disturbing. This is a number that should not be reachedsaid United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi.
” It should serve as a wake-up call for us to resolve and prevent destructive conflict, end persecution and address the root causes that force innocent people to flee their homes. “
The situation is serious, because the statistics from UNHCR. By the end of 2021, the number of displaced people worldwide will reach 90 million, due to new waves of violence or prolonged conflict in countries such as Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Myanmar, Nigeria, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic. of Congo.
Then on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of neighboring Ukraine, throwing new millions of people into the streets to flee the fighting and reach less exposed regions or other countries.
Europe has not seen such a rapid influx of refugees since the end of World War II. Nearly 6.5 million Ukrainians have left the country, mostly women and children, with men of fighting age expected to remain in the country. And theUN it is estimated that they could be 8.3 million by the end of the year.
In Ukraine itself, approximately 8 million people are estimated to be internally displaced.
Prior to the Russian invasion, Ukraine had 37 million people in areas under its government control. This figure does not include Crimea (South), which was annexed in 2014 by Russia, and the eastern regions controlled by pro-Russian separatists.
This 100 million draw represents more than 1% of the world’s population, and only 13 countries in the world have populations larger than this number, recalling UNHCRto give a better idea of the size of the phenomenon.
Two speed unity
The response of the international community to those fleeing the war in Ukraine has been very positive.Filippo Grandi was delighted. The ascent of this compassion is very real and a similar mobilization is needed with regard to all other crises in the world.he pointed out.
But the outpouring of generosity and the mobilization of public aid for Ukraine is in stark contrast to the more mixed reception given to refugees from other theaters of war such as Afghanistan or Syria.
Also, the boss of UNHCR does he remember that Humanitarian aid is only palliative, not a cure.
To restore the water, the only answer is peace and stability, so that innocent people will no longer be forced to choose between the immediate danger of conflict and difficult flight and exile.his hammer.
On Friday, he criticized the twenty countries that, more than two years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, continue to close their borders to asylum seekers in the name of health security. He suspects they are using this as an excuse not to reopen them.
A ratio of two NGOpublished on May 19, counted nearly 60 million internally displaced people worldwide last year, many of them due to natural disasters.
The situation in the world has never been so badobservation by the general secretary of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Jan Egeland. The world has collapsedhe insisted.
Source: Radio-Canada