Saturday, 20 June_Every Action Counts is the theme of this year’s report by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees- UNHRC. More people around the world are now displaced than ever despite COVID-19 slowing movements. Prolonged military conflict is but one reason.
TEHRAN, Jun 19 - More than 70 million people were counted last year as displaced from their homes, a record that underestimates the real number of refugees and asylum seekers, the UN said Wednesday.
TEHRAN, June 19 - The U.N. refugee agency reported Tuesday that nearly 69 million people who have fled war, violence and persecution were forcibly displaced last year, a record for the fifth straight year.
TEHRAN, January 27 - An estimated 2,400 people have been displaced after fires spread through residential areas in Krukut, in west Jakarta's Taman Sari district, on Saturday.
TEHRAN, January 17 - Hundreds of families returned to their homes and towns in Deir Ezzor province’s eastern countryside which the Syrian Arab Army had liberated from ISIL.
TEHRAN, October 15 - An independent humanitarian organization said hundreds of thousands of people are still displaced from Iraq’s strategic northern city of Mosul, which served as Daesh terror group’s last urban bastion and its de facto capital in the Arab country, months after government forces and their allied fighters liberated it from the clutches of the extremists.
TEHRAN, October 13 - Sixteen people have been killed and hundreds displaced in Uganda following weeks of heavy rains in the east and west of the country. The rains have destroyed many homes as well as banana plantations and livestock which are the main sources of income for the local population.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says a total of 66,000 people have been displaced due to fresh fighting in northern Syria, where Turkey has been carrying out operations.