‘Mid-Year Trend 2014’- rapport UNHCR

Het ‘Mid-Year Trend 2014’- rapport van UNHCR (de vluchtelingenorganisatie van de VN) staat online, enkele hoofdbevindingen:
"With war raging across large swathes of the Middle East and Africa plus elsewhere, an estimated 5.5 million people became newly uprooted during the first six months of 2014, signalling a further rise in the number of people forcibly displaced.
UNHCR's new Mid-Year Trends 2014 report shows that of the 5.5 million who were newly displaced, 1.4 million fled across international borders becoming refugees, while the rest were displaced within their own countries (IDPs). Taking into account existing displaced populations, data revisions, voluntary returns and resettlement, the number of people being helped by UNHCR (referred to in the report as People of Concern) stood at 46.3 million as of mid-2014 – some 3.4 million more than at the end of 2013 and a new record high."
(Bron: website unhcr.org)