For the first time since the end of World War II, the number of refugees, displaced persons and asylum seekers has exceeded 50 million people. According to the published annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), June 20 on the occasion of World Refugee Day, the end of 2013 were in fact 51.2 million people forced to flee their homes, six million more than the year before.
The increase is mainly due to the war in Syria, which has 2.5 million refugees and 6.5 million internally displaced others. Other decisive crisis in the exodus of the population were those of the Central African Republic and South Sudan.
The figure includes 16.7 million refugees, 33.3 million people forcibly displaced within their own country and 1.2 million asylum seekers.
Where are these forced migrants? Most of them are in Pakistan: 1.6 million, but the country with the highest percentage of refugees in Lebanon, where it is almost an inhabitant five.
Among the issues of concern to the United Nations there are the number of refugees for years, if not decades, both the age of the people forced to flee half are children.
Also on the occasion of the World Day of Refugees, Save the Children has launched the initiative on social networks "The journey of Bereket," the diary of a 15 year old Eritrean boy traveling to Germany to build a future. Alone, without money and documents, moves by means of luck, recounting his journey from day to day on Facebook.
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