It also calls for “increasing efforts to protect and support them at every step of their journey.”
June 20 () –
The Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, called this Thursday for “global solidarity” to provide support to the nearly 43.5 million refugees so that they can “rebuild their lives with dignity” and “increase efforts to protect and support them every step of their journey.
“From Sudan to Ukraine, from the Middle East to Burma, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and beyond, conflict, climate chaos and political unrest are forcing record numbers of people from their homes and fueling deep suffering. human,” he said.
“The latest figures show that a total of more than 120 million people around the world are forcibly displaced, including 43.5 million refugees,” Guterres said in a message on the occasion of World Refugee Day, a day intended to “honor his strength and bravery.”
Thus, the secretary general of the international organization has stressed that “when given opportunities, refugees make significant contributions to their host communities” and added that “they need access to equal opportunities and work, housing and healthcare.”
“Young refugees need quality education to achieve their dreams,” he said, before emphasizing that “the generous host countries, mostly with low or middle income, need the support and resources to fully include refugees in their societies and economies.
For this reason, Guterres has called for “a commitment to reaffirm collective responsibility when assisting and welcoming refugees, when respecting their human rights, including the right to seek asylum, when protecting the integrity of the refugee protection regime and, ultimately, to resolve conflicts so that those forced to flee their communities can return home.
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) denounced last week the “apathy” and “inaction” on the part of the international community in the face of the upsurge in forced displacement, which already affects 120 million people around the world and It especially burdens the populations of war zones such as Sudan, Burma or the Gaza Strip.
In its report ‘Global Forced Displacement Trends’, it warned that for twelve consecutive years there have been increases in the global figures of forced displacement and pointed out that the increase throughout 2024 is due both to the consequences of new and existing conflicts and to the inability to resolve prolonged crises. Based on this data, if the globally displaced population were a country, it would be the twelfth largest in the world, roughly the size of Japan.
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