INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Some 110 million people have had to flee their homes because of conflict, persecution, or human rights violations, the U.N
High Commissioner for Refugees says
The war in Sudan, which has displaced nearly 2 million people since April, is but the latest in a long list of crises that has led to the
Last year the agency recorded 35 emergencies, three to four times more than in previous years
evacuated.Conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia and Myanmar were also responsible for displacing more than 1 million
One-third of them - 35 million - have fled to other countries, making them refugees, according to the UNHCR report
Most refugees are hosted by low to middle-income countries in Asia and Africa, not rich countries in Europe or North America, Grandi
said.Turkey currently hosts the most refugees with 3.8 million people, mostly Syrians who fled the civil war, followed by Iran with 3.4
million refugees, mostly Afghans
But there are also 5.7 million Ukrainian refugees scattered across countries in Europe and beyond
The number of stateless people has also risen in 2022 to 4.4 million, according to UNHCR data, but this is believed to be an
underestimate.Regarding asylum claims, the United States was the country to receive the most new applications in 2022 with 730,400 claims
asylum processing centers in Latin America with the goal of reducing the number of people who trek their way north to the Mexico-United
States border.As the number of asylum-seekers grows, so have the challenges facing them
We see tougher and tougher immigration or refugee admission rules
week European leaders renewed financial promises to North African nations in the hopes of stemming migration across the Mediterranean while
the British government insists on a so-far failed plan to ship asylum-seekers to Rwanda, something UNHCR is opposed to
migration and asylum pact, despite criticism from human rights groups.Grandi also celebrated the fact that the number of refugees resettled
in 2022 doubled to 114,000 from the previous year
