And there's this, Hot off the Presses -- as they used to say ...
There Have Never Been More Displaced People Across the World Than Now (w Video)
by Helen Regan, Time.com -- June 19, 2015
The total number of people forcibly displaced by war, conflict and persecution rose to a record 59.5 million at the end of 2014, the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) has said.
The agency’s annual Global Trends Report: World at War, released Thursday, found forced displacement worldwide has reached unprecedented levels, with a record annual rise of 8.3 million more displaced people since 2013. Some 38.2 million of the total were internally displaced in their own countries.
If the number of displaced persons formed a nation, the report said, it would be the 24th largest country in the world.
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Talk about "
your man (woman, or child) -- without a Nation" ...
Kind of sounds like they need one. It kind sounds like, they could be one ...
"More than half of all refugees cam from three countries: Syria, Afghanistan, and Somalia."
"The U.N. says the scale of the Global Displacement is 'dwarfing anything seen before'."
Now for some of the "fine print" -- you know, the stuff you generally won't see anywhere close to "Above the Fold" ...
UNHCR Global Trends -- Forced Displacement in 2014
unhcr.org
[pg 13-14]
Conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic forced 1.55 million persons to flee abroad in 2014, mainly to neighbouring countries. Turkey (1.56 million; Government estimate), Lebanon (1.15 million), Jordan (623,100), Iraq (234,200), and Egypt (138,400) were shouldering the largest burden in hosting Syrian refugees by the end of 2014. In addition, Syrians lodged some 175,000 individual asylum applications worldwide during the year, most of them in Europe.
Afghans were the second-largest refugee group under UNHCR's mandate, with some 2.6 million persons at the end of 2014. As in previous years, Pakistan and the Islamic Republic of Iran were the main hosting countries of this population, with 1.5 million and 950,000 refugees, respectively. Together, these two countries accounted for 95 percent of all Afghan refugees worldwide. In addition, Germany hosted 27,800 Afghan refugees. In the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Government’s upward revision of the number of Afghan refugees in that country (from 814,000 to 950,000) was partly offset by the combined voluntary repatriation and resettlement departures of roughly 20,000 Afghans. The non-renewal of 137,500 Proof of Registration cards for Afghan refugees in Pakistan further decreased the size of this population.
Somalis remained the third-largest refugee group under UNHCR's mandate with some 1.11 million persons at the end of 2014, a figure almost unchanged since the end of 2013 (1.12 million). The large-scale arrivals of hundreds of thousands Somalis into Kenya and Ethiopia witnessed during some previous years slowed considerably in 2014. Nevertheless, a total of 35,900 Somalis sought international protection during the year, notably in Yemen (17,600), Kenya (11,500), and Ethiopia (6,300).
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[pg 19]
DURABLE SOLUTIONS FOR REFUGEES
Protecting and finding durable solutions for refugees are core mandates of UNHCR. Hence, durable solutions remain an integral part of UNHCR's mission. This mandate is affirmed by both the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees as well as UNHCR's Executive Committee. This is in addition to regional instruments, which have strongly backed the mandate of finding permanent solutions to the plight of refugees. The need for cooperation among signatory states to find such permanent solutions is enshrined in the 1951 Convention and other similar instruments.
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Who and What is this UNHCR, again?
The U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) -- History page
unhcr.org
The UN refugee agency emerged in the wake of World War II to help Europeans displaced by that conflict. Optimistically, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly with a three-year mandate to complete its work and then disband. The following year, on July 28, the United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees -- the legal foundation of helping refugees and the basic statute guiding UNHCR's work -- was adopted.
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The rest as they say ...
"is History."
That was some 3-year tour of duty, huh?
And Who are those "signatory states" working to solve this little-noticed Harm against Humanity?
States Parties to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol
UNHCR, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
The Convention was drafted and signed by the United Nations Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Status of Refugees and Stateless Persons, held at Geneva from 2 to 25 July 1951. The Conference was convened pursuant to General Assembly resolution 429 (V) of 14 December 1950. The Convention was adopted on 28 July 1951; in accordance with Article 43, it entered into force on 22 April 1954. The Protocol was adopted on 31 January 1967; it entered into force on 4 October 1967 in accordance with its Article VIII.
[...] the Convention enters into force on the ninetieth day after the date of deposit by the ratifying or acceding State. The Protocol enters into force on the date of deposit of each acceding State (Article VIII (2)). Exceptions are indicated below.
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That glaring omission is kind of an "exceptional" one, some might say.
(the) U.S.A. certainly knows how to create 'such problems', it's just that they don't usually have much interest in 'solving them' ... humanly speaking.
That's usually someone else's business. The simple 'Luck of the Draw' ... in that hapless human lottery, you know.
War always leaves wreckage in its wake ... that's just the nature of the beast. (... as any 'honest' War-promoter will have to rationalize.)