One in 77 people on Earth is forcibly displaced!

. 103 million people worldwode were forced to leave their homes in the first half of 2022

.Turkey hosted the largest number of refugees

.Conflict, persecution, human rights violation are the main reasons

Geneva: Its sad but it is true that  one in 77 people on Earth is forcibly displaced? That is what the latest report of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) says.

Human rights violations, conflict, persecution and events seriously disturbing public order globally have forced 103 million people to leave their placed in the first half of 2022, meaning that one in 77 people on Earth is forcibly displaced, the report released on Friday said.This is an increase of 13.6 million, or 15 per cent, compared to the end of 2021,

There has been an increase of 24 per cent in the total number of refugees and people in need of international protection worldwide from 25.7 million at the end of 2021 to 32 million by mid-2022. At the end of June this year, more than half (56 per cent) of all refugees were Syrian, Venezuelan or Ukrainian.

Turkey was the major host of these displaced perons, accepting 3.7 million refugees in mid 2022, the largest refugee population worldwide. Colombia was second with 2.5 million and Germany third with 2.2 million refugees, followed by Pakistan and Uganda (1.5 million each), Xinhua news agency reported.

The UNHCR report also showed that the number of asylum-seekers waiting for a decision had climbed to 4.9 million by mid-2022 from 4.6 million at the end of 2021.

In the first half of this year, more than 9.6 million new displacements due to conflict and violence were reported. The vast majority were in Ukraine, which accounted for 74 per cent of all new internal displacements.

During the same period, significant displacements of people were also reported in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, as well as in Myanmar, Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, Mozambique and Congo.

——INDIA NEWS STREAM