Tag: forced displacement

NOVANEWS By Graham Peebles It constitutes the greatest humanitarian crisis since the World War II and affecting huge numbers of people and demanding all that is best in us. Yet instead of compassion, understanding and unity, all too often intolerance, ignorance and suspicion characterise the response to the needs of refugees and migrants. There are now unprecedented numbers of displaced people in our world, with children making up a disproportionate percentage of the total. Figures from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR – the UN refugee agency) are detailed and shocking and demand our attention: At 65.3 million, “the global population of forcibly displaced people today is larger than the entire population of the UK”. Of this total, almost 25 million are refugees (...