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The testimony of 135 Syrian refugee women in the UNHCR report | |
"Woman Alone – the Fight for Survival by Syrian Refugee Women" is a new report of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), based on the testimony of 135 of these women. The statements were given over more than three months of interviews at the beginning of 2014. [...] | |
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50 million people forcibly displaced worldwide | |
The United Nations Agency for Refugees (UNHCR) published a report revealing that the number of refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced persons worldwide has exceeded 50 million, for the first time since World War II. This is a record number: 51.2 million people were forcibly displaced at the end of 2013, six million more than the reported number for 2012. These figures were made public on the World Refugee Day, when the annual UNHCR Global Trends Report was published. [...] | |
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