UN Refugee Agency Says More than 122 Million People Forcibly Displaced Worldwide
- UNHCR reported that by the end of April 2025, 122.1 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide, slightly down from a record high at year-end 2024.
- This displacement surge resulted from ongoing conflicts in Sudan, Myanmar, and Ukraine, combined with a failure to achieve lasting peace and reduced humanitarian funding.
- In 2024, 9.8 million displaced persons returned home, including 1.6 million refugees—the largest return in over two decades—and 8.2 million internally displaced people.
- Nearly two million Syrians have returned home after years of turmoil, with over 500,000 crossing back since Bashar al-Assad's fall in December 2024, and 1.2 million IDPs returned since late 2024.
- Filippo Grandi emphasized the urgent need to restore peace and increase funding as displacement remains "untenably high" amid volatile international relations and shrinking aid.
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More than 122-million displaced by wars as aid funding falls: UN
The number of people displaced by war and persecution around the world climbed above 122-million this year due to failures to resolve multi-year conflicts such as those in Sudan and Ukraine, the UN refugee agency said on Thursday.
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122m forcibly displaced worldwide 'untenably high': UN
The number of people forcibly displaced from their homes worldwide has dropped slightly from a record peak but remains "untenably high", the United Nations said Thursday. A record 123.2 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced from their homes at the end of 2024, said UNHCR, the UN refugee agency. But that figure dropped to 122.1 million by the end of April this year, as Syrians began returning home after years of turmoil. More than 1.5 …
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