Bericht des UNHCR, 19.6.2018 (engl. Originalfassung)
As of the end of 2017, there were some 71.4 million people of concern to UNHCR around the world—asylum-seekers, refugees, returnees, the internally displaced and stateless. Millions were newly displaced during the year, fleeing war, violence and persecution in countries including the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Iraq, Myanmar, South Sudan and the Syrian Arab Republic (Syria). As a result, UNHCR was called on to address a succession of new or recurring or deepening displacement crises, some shifting in new and complicated directions. Torn from their homes and propelled across borders, there could be no illusion that they were moving voluntarily, in search of a better life. Fleeing for their lives, their movement was often chaotic and improvised, their assets left behind. Almost two thirds remained internally displaced within their own countries, often unable to reach safety abroad as borders closed and restrictive admissions policies prevailed. At the same time, protracted crises remained entrenched. Refugees fled Afghanistan almost 40 years ago, but some two million are still hosted in the Islamic Republics of Iran and Pakistan, and hundreds of thousands more across the world.
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