According to UNHCR = United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the number of refugees and internally displaced persons in the world who have been displaced due to conflicts has reached a record high last year, and Ukraine by Russia started in February. The military invasion of Ukraine has exceeded 100 million people worldwide.
UNHCR released its latest report on the 16th, ahead of the UN's World Refugee Day on the 20th of this month.
According to this, the number of refugees fleeing abroad due to conflict and persecution and internally displaced persons displaced from their homes was 89.3 million worldwide at the end of last year, an increase of 6.9 million from the previous year, the highest ever. ..
Of these, the largest number of people fleeing abroad are 6.8 million from Middle East Syria, where the civil war continues, 4.6 million from Venezuela, South America, where political turmoil continues, and the Islamist Taliban took power last year. There are 2.7 million people from Afghanistan.
In addition, UNHCR estimates that the number of refugees and refugees in the world has exceeded 100 million, including those who fled Ukraine in the military invasion by Russia that began in February.
UNHCR's High Commissioner for Refugees, Grandy, has expressed a strong sense of crisis and is calling on the international community to further cooperate, saying that it is necessary to strengthen support for refugees and refugees not only in Ukraine but around the world.