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(ANSA) – ROME, JUNE 13 – Final yr, individuals compelled to flee reached new historic ranges internationally: that is what’s reported within the 2024 International Tendencies Report by UNHCR, the UN refugee company. The general variety of individuals forcibly displaced – which is able to attain 120 million in Could 2024 – is rising for the twelfth consecutive yr resulting from previous and new conflicts. Final yr, UNHCR responded to a rising variety of new or worsening humanitarian crises, declaring 43 emergencies in 29 international locations – the best annual variety of declared emergencies in a decade, quadrupling in simply three years. This enhance was pushed by the civil warfare in Sudan that erupted in April final yr, however combating within the Democratic Republic of Congo and Myanmar in 2023 additionally compelled thousands and thousands of individuals to flee. UNRWA estimates that, on the finish of final yr, 1.7 million individuals (75% of the inhabitants) within the Gaza Strip had been displaced by violence, whereas Syria stays the world’s largest refugee disaster, with 13.8 million individuals compelled to flee. The variety of refugees has risen to 43.4 million and 73% of these underneath UNHCR’s mandate come from simply 5 international locations (Afghanistan, Syria, Venezuela, Ukraine and Sudan). The biggest refugee inhabitants globally is the Afghan one. Iran (3.8 million), Turkey (3.3 million), Colombia (2.9 million), Germany (2.6 million) and Pakistan (2 million) host the most important refugee populations. The International Tendencies report reveals that the overwhelming majority of refugees are hosted in international locations neighboring the disaster international locations (69%) and 75% reside in low- and middle-income nations that collectively produce lower than 20% of worldwide revenue. The 45 least developed international locations – which collectively signify lower than 1.4% of worldwide gross home product – host greater than 21% of all refugees globally. In Italy, UNHCR is concerned in tasks and initiatives to advertise entry to companies and the employment inclusion of refugees. The ‘Welcome. Working for refugee integration’ in simply seven years has concerned over 700 firms which have created over 30 thousand job placement paths. Eight vital Italian municipalities have additionally joined the UNHCR ‘Constitution for Integration’, with multifunctional frequent areas to facilitate entry to elementary companies of their territories. Italy can also be dedicated to providing refugees the chance to reach via common and protected channels. For instance, 2,805 refugee individuals have been resettled within the nation from 2015 to immediately. Moreover, since 2017, 1,510 susceptible individuals have been transferred from Libya via evacuations and humanitarian corridors and roughly one other 1,300 individuals will observe within the subsequent three years. In Italy, there have been 161,792 individuals entitled to worldwide safety on the finish of 2023, 146,938 asylum seekers, whereas round 3,000 stateless individuals had been estimated. In Could 2024, nevertheless, there have been over 164,000 Ukrainian residents with non permanent safety. (HANDLE).
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