Ukraine war, global conflicts have displaced more than 100M: UN News
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Ukraine war, global conflicts have displaced more than 100M: UN

More than 100 million individuals around the world have been driven from their homes due to the Ukraine war and other conflicts, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) revealed Sunday.

The UNHCR cited new data regarding individuals forced to flee to escape “conflict, violence, human rights violations and persecution[.]” The Ukraine war has been a main propellant in forcing individuals to flee their homes. So far, “the war in Ukraine has displaced 8 million within the country this year and forced around 6 million to leave the nation” in 2022. Waves of violence and conflict have also forcibly displaced individuals worldwide.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi stated that this 100 million figure, which is equivalent to 1 percent of the world’s population, is “a record that should never have been set.” Grandi called for this statistic to “serve as a wake-up call to resolve and prevent destructive conflicts, end persecution, and address the underlying causes that force innocent people to flee their homes.”

Last week, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre revealed a record 59.1 million individuals at the end of 2021 were living in internal displacement.

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