One year after the death of Alan Kurdi saw concern for the plight of Syrians surge across Europe and the West, leading humanitarians are urging the world not to give up on the world’s forgotten refugee crises.
The UN says there are now 65.3 million people worldwide who have had to flee their homes to escape conflict, the most since records began and possibly since the end of the Second World War.
But in a world where 34,000 people are forcibly displaced every single day, a tiny fraction of the causes behind this global crisis receive the attention, political focus and financial support they deserve.
Working with the UN refugee agency and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), The Independent has put together this list, just a selection of the refugee crises around the world that are starved of attention and as a result drastically underfunded.
When a country stops protecting a group of people and the international community looks the other way, it’s “a disaster for the people living in those areas”, says Richard Skretteberg, a senior advisor at NRC who has been reporting on and then trying to help the world’s crisis-hit areas for more than 30 years. Full story...
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The UN says there are now 65.3 million people worldwide who have had to flee their homes to escape conflict, the most since records began and possibly since the end of the Second World War.
But in a world where 34,000 people are forcibly displaced every single day, a tiny fraction of the causes behind this global crisis receive the attention, political focus and financial support they deserve.
Working with the UN refugee agency and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), The Independent has put together this list, just a selection of the refugee crises around the world that are starved of attention and as a result drastically underfunded.
When a country stops protecting a group of people and the international community looks the other way, it’s “a disaster for the people living in those areas”, says Richard Skretteberg, a senior advisor at NRC who has been reporting on and then trying to help the world’s crisis-hit areas for more than 30 years. Full story...
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