A German UNHCR partner organization has sounded the alarm over the ramifications of food shortages for refugee populations worldwide. The pandemic, the war in Ukraine and droughts are exacerbating humanitarian crises like the one in Yemen, the NGO warned.
Thousands of displaced Afghans who lived in the capital Kabul have returned to their homes in rural Afghanistan. Each family received $200 to buy food and other essentials from UN refugee agency UNHCR.
The African Center for Strategic Studies reports that conflicts continue to drive record levels of population displacement in Africa. The continent's 36 million forcibly displaced persons represent 44% of the global total.
More children are displaced from their homes worldwide than at any time since WWII, UNICEF has said. The agency has urged governments to boost efforts to protect and support all child refugees and migrants.
UNHCR reported in early June that 52% of the 1.3 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan are children, after it conducted a study on the population inside the country.
Save the Children has denounced that the fact that the total number of internally displaced children in 2021 has reached a record total 25.2 million. The organization said that conflict, violence and climate-related disasters were the main causes that led to an increase in displacement.
Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said Thursday.
Since the beginning of the mass exodus from Ukraine to EU countries, there have been reports of unequal treatment and discrimination against non-Ukrainians at train stations, border crossings and elsewhere. Now that these third-country nationals are scattered across Europe trying to figure out their options, they face additional challenges, as reports about confiscated passports show.
Since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021, thousands of Afghans had to leave their homes. Many more are expected to flee due to the escalating humanitarian crisis. Where have Afghans gone to so far? How many of them have received protection? And what's their situation in Germany, the country with the third-highest number of Afghans living in exile worldwide?
The UN refugee agency chief Filippo Grandi has warned that Afghanistan must not be forgotten because of the war in Ukraine. Tens of thousands of Afghans have been unable to flee the country, which has descended into a deep crisis.
Three children have died and two others are in life-threatening condition after a wave of storms and freezing temperatures hit northwest Syria, according to UN officials and aid workers. Tens of thousands of displaced people are living in makeshift shelters in the area.
The German Foreign Office acknowledged that parts of Afghanistan will harbor severe dangers for some parts of the population following the Taliban takeover of power in August. It said in a report that some people will have to expect oppression, persecution and even death under the rule of the militant Islamist group.