More than two million refugees who cannot return to their homeland or stay in their host country for security or lack of space need to be relocated to third countries in 2023, the United Nations announced today.
This is a 36% increase over this year’s needs, estimated at 1.47 million people, said UNHCR spokeswoman Sambia Mantou in a presentation of the figures.
The increase is mainly attributed to “the humanitarian consequences of the pandemic and the emergence of new displacement situations over the past year,” she said.
“Relocation” refers to the transfer of refugees from one country of asylum to another state that has agreed to receive them and provide them with permanent residence.
For the seventh consecutive year, Syrian refugees (approximately 777,800 refugees in need of relocation) are among those with the highest relocation needs, followed by refugees from Afghanistan (274,000), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (190,400) and South Sudan ( 117,600) and Myanmar (over 114,000). Many of those from Myanmar belong to the Rohingya Muslim minority and are stateless.
The relocation process offers protection and a lasting solution to tens of thousands of refugees each year. But the sites offered by the countries are few and their number is insufficient.
In 2020, the closure of borders and travel restrictions due to the Covid pandemic made in many cases a temporary suspension of travel to relocating countries, with the result that refugee relocation fell to its lowest level, with only 22,800 departures per year. that.
The number of refugees relocating doubled last year to 39,266. But the solutions found are far behind the needs, which last year were valued at more than 1.44 million positions.
Only a few countries are participating in the UNHCR relocation program. The main relocation countries in the world are the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and the Nordic countries.
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