{"id":6169,"date":"2017-06-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.conectas.org.inf.br\/wp\/noticias\/the-life-left-behind\/"},"modified":"2021-04-12T14:51:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T14:51:27","slug":"the-life-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/the-life-left-behind\/","title":"The life left behind","content":"

Global conflicts, persecution and human rights violations force one in every 113 people to flee their homes. According to a report<\/a> released yesterday, June 19, by UNHCR (Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees), the world has 65.6 million refugees, asylum-seekers and people who have been forcibly displaced from their countries of origin – a population the size of the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

This is the largest number ever recorded in history and is due largely to the worsening of the conflict and the humanitarian crisis in Syria.<\/p>\n

The UNHCR report, released one day before World Refugee Day, reveals an especially cruel detail of forced displacements: the high number of children affected by the violence, who represent 51% of refugees in the world. More than 75,000 asylum applications were made by unaccompanied children.<\/p>\n

The report also shows the primary destinations of these people: 84% of refugees, who total 22.5 million, are in low- and middle-income countries and one in three are received by least developed nations.<\/p>\n

Brazil\u2019s role as a recipient has been low. The country currently has just 9,689 refugees, a figure that represents 0.043% of the total. According to the UN report, Brazil accepted 982 refugees in 2016, while the number of applications rose from 20,815 in 2015 to 35,464 last year \u2013 an increase of 70%.<\/p>\n