A record 71 million people have been displaced worldwide by war, persecution and other violence, the U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday, an increase of more than 2 million from a year earlier — and an overall total that would amount to the world's 20th most populous country. The annual 'Global
1 / 2UN RefugeesFILE - In this Aug. 31, 2018 file photo, Venezuelan migrants line up for free bread and coffee, donated by a Colombian family from their car, at a gas station in Pamplona, Colombia. A record 71 million people have been displaced worldwide from war, persecution and other violence, the U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday, June 18, 2019, an increase of more than 2 million from last year and an overall total that would amount to the world's 20th most populous country.
Launching the report, the high commissioner, Filippo Grandi, had a message for U.S. President Donald Trump and other world leaders, calling it"damaging" to depict migrants and refugees as threats to jobs and security in host countries. Often, they are fleeing insecurity and danger themselves, he said.
"The global trends, once again unfortunately, go in what I would say is the wrong direction," Grandi told reporters in Geneva."There are new conflicts, new situations, producing refugees, adding themselves to the old ones. The old ones never get resolved." UNHCR said that its figures are"conservative" and that Venezuela masks a potentially longer-term trend.
"Otherwise these countries will not bear the pressure anymore and then they have to resort to measures that will damage refugees," he said."We are in a very dangerous situation." He said many people leaving Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador through Mexico have faced violence by gangs and suffered from"the inability of these governments to protect their own citizens."
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