The UNHCR report detailed how in region after region, the number of refugees and internally displaced people is on the rise. "It is terrifying that on the one hand there is more and more impunity for those starting conflicts, and on the other there is seeming utter inability of the international community to work together to stop wars and build and preserve peace," Guterres added. Every day last year on average 42,500 people became refugees, asylum seekers, or internally displaced, a four-fold increase in just four years.
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Since early 2011, the main reason for the acceleration has been the war in Syria, now the world's single-largest driver of displacement. "We are witnessing a paradigm change, an unchecked slide into an era in which the scale of global forced displacement as well as the response required is now clearly dwarfing anything seen before," said UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres. If this were the population of a country, it would be the world's 24th biggest. Globally, one in every 122 humans is now either a refugee, internally displaced, or seeking asylum.
Moreover, the report said the situation was likely to worsen still further. The increase represents the biggest leap ever seen in a single year. It said the number of people forcibly displaced at the end of 2014 had risen to a staggering 59.5 million compared to 51.2 million a year earlier and 37.5 million a decade ago. UNHCR's annual Global Trends Report: World at War, released on Thursday (June 18), said that worldwide displacement was at the highest level ever recorded. GENEVA, June 18 (UNHCR) – Wars, conflict and persecution have forced more people than at any other time since records began to flee their homes and seek refuge and safety elsewhere, according to a new report from the UN refugee agency.
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