UNHCR / GLOBAL TRENDS REPORT
14-Jun-2023
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The UN refugee agency calls for concerted action as forced displacement hits new record in 2022. UNHCR
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STORY: UNHCR / GLOBAL TRENDS REPORT
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TRT: 04:30
SOURCE: UNHCR / UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE SEE SHOTLIST FOR DETAILS
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: PLEASE SEE SHOTLIST FOR DETAILS
SHOTLIST
11 JULY 2021, MAZAR-E SHARIF, AFGHANISTAN – PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
1. Various shots, Makeshift camp, refugees, tent
15 DECEMBER 2021, KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
2. Wide shot, WS Afghan refugee women in a queue for cash assistance
17 MARCH 2022, JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN – PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
3. Various shots, students crossing river
12 JUNE 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“We have 110 million people that have fled because of conflict, persecution, discrimination, violence, often mixed with other motives, in particular the impact of climate change. So, you have quite a package – the usual, I would say package – of causes that have caused the further increase.”
MAY 2023, NORTH KIVU, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO – PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
5. Various shots, woman walking, Buchagara site
12 JUNE 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“You may recall just a couple of years ago, or maybe last year, when we announced that for the first time, we had gone over 100 million displaced people. Well, already 10 percent more have been added to this figure. It's quite an indictment on the state of our world, if I may say, to have to report that.”
NOVEMBER 2017, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH – PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
7. Aerial shot, Cox’s Bazar, refugees
3 JUNE 2023, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH – PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
8. Aerial shot, Cox’s Bazar, refugees
12 JUNE 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“The majority of the people that flee, flee not to rich countries, but to countries that are either poor or middle income – low or middle income – countries, about 76 percent. And you know, I highlight this – I've highlighted this – I think every time in the past few years. But I think it's quite important to recall that, to remind ourselves because I think the prevailing rhetoric is still that all the refugees go to the rich countries. This is actually wrong. It's quite the opposite.”
2 OCTOBER 2015, LESBOS, GREECE – PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
10. Various shots, dinghy in sea arriving at the shore, Syrian refugees
12 JUNE 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“70 percent of the refugees, meaning of those 35 million, actually flee to the country next to their country. Most of them actually want to go back home. So there is a lot in these figures that seem a bit dry that tell a story that is so different from what we constantly hear, especially from some politicians.”
11 MAY 2023, BOROTA, CHAD – PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
12. Aerial shots, Sudanese refugees, makeshift shelters
12 JUNE 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“The Sudan crisis has generated two funding appeals by the U.N., one for inside Sudan, 16 percent funded 2 months into the crisis, and one for the refugee hosting countries which UNHCR coordinates, 13 percent funded. I remind you that four weeks into the Ukraine emergency, all our appeals were 25 percent funded already four weeks. We're now at almost eight weeks, I think. So, sorry, but there is a discrepancy here that needs to be addressed. There is an injustice that needs to be addressed.”
27 FEBRUARY 2022, ZOZIN-MEDYKA BORDER POINT, UKRAINE – PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
14. Wide shot, beds aligned in gymnasium
21 MARCH 2022, WARSAW, POLAND – PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
15. Close up, Ukrainian refugee waiting for cash assistance
6 MAY 2023, LVIV, UKRAINE – PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
16. Various shots, Internally-displaced families, stadium "Arena Lviv.”
12 JUNE 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“Solutions to these movements are increasingly difficult to even imagine or even put on the table … because of all the things you know, we are in a very polarized world where international tensions play out all the way into humanitarian issues. And this is really very, very worrying. But my message here is a little bit more positive: they're not absent. We are not in a world where solutions do not happen.”
18. Med shot, Grandi, journalists, press room
1. Various shots, Makeshift camp, refugees, tent
15 DECEMBER 2021, KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
2. Wide shot, WS Afghan refugee women in a queue for cash assistance
17 MARCH 2022, JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN – PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
3. Various shots, students crossing river
12 JUNE 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“We have 110 million people that have fled because of conflict, persecution, discrimination, violence, often mixed with other motives, in particular the impact of climate change. So, you have quite a package – the usual, I would say package – of causes that have caused the further increase.”
MAY 2023, NORTH KIVU, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO – PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
5. Various shots, woman walking, Buchagara site
12 JUNE 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“You may recall just a couple of years ago, or maybe last year, when we announced that for the first time, we had gone over 100 million displaced people. Well, already 10 percent more have been added to this figure. It's quite an indictment on the state of our world, if I may say, to have to report that.”
NOVEMBER 2017, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH – PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
7. Aerial shot, Cox’s Bazar, refugees
3 JUNE 2023, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH – PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
8. Aerial shot, Cox’s Bazar, refugees
12 JUNE 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“The majority of the people that flee, flee not to rich countries, but to countries that are either poor or middle income – low or middle income – countries, about 76 percent. And you know, I highlight this – I've highlighted this – I think every time in the past few years. But I think it's quite important to recall that, to remind ourselves because I think the prevailing rhetoric is still that all the refugees go to the rich countries. This is actually wrong. It's quite the opposite.”
2 OCTOBER 2015, LESBOS, GREECE – PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
10. Various shots, dinghy in sea arriving at the shore, Syrian refugees
12 JUNE 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“70 percent of the refugees, meaning of those 35 million, actually flee to the country next to their country. Most of them actually want to go back home. So there is a lot in these figures that seem a bit dry that tell a story that is so different from what we constantly hear, especially from some politicians.”
11 MAY 2023, BOROTA, CHAD – PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
12. Aerial shots, Sudanese refugees, makeshift shelters
12 JUNE 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“The Sudan crisis has generated two funding appeals by the U.N., one for inside Sudan, 16 percent funded 2 months into the crisis, and one for the refugee hosting countries which UNHCR coordinates, 13 percent funded. I remind you that four weeks into the Ukraine emergency, all our appeals were 25 percent funded already four weeks. We're now at almost eight weeks, I think. So, sorry, but there is a discrepancy here that needs to be addressed. There is an injustice that needs to be addressed.”
27 FEBRUARY 2022, ZOZIN-MEDYKA BORDER POINT, UKRAINE – PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
14. Wide shot, beds aligned in gymnasium
21 MARCH 2022, WARSAW, POLAND – PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
15. Close up, Ukrainian refugee waiting for cash assistance
6 MAY 2023, LVIV, UKRAINE – PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR ON SCREEN
16. Various shots, Internally-displaced families, stadium "Arena Lviv.”
12 JUNE 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR):
“Solutions to these movements are increasingly difficult to even imagine or even put on the table … because of all the things you know, we are in a very polarized world where international tensions play out all the way into humanitarian issues. And this is really very, very worrying. But my message here is a little bit more positive: they're not absent. We are not in a world where solutions do not happen.”
18. Med shot, Grandi, journalists, press room
STORYLINE
The UN refugees agency (UNHCR) calls for concerted action as forced displacement hits new record in 2022.
The full-scale war in Ukraine, alongside conflict elsewhere and climate-driven upheaval, meant more people than ever remained uprooted from their homes last year, heightening the urgency for immediate, collective action to alleviate the causes and impact of displacement, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, said today (14 Jun).
UNHCR’s flagship annual report, Global Trends in Forced Displacement 2022, found that by the end of 2022, the number of people displaced by war, persecution, violence, and human rights abuses stood at a record 108.4 million, up 19.1 million on a year earlier, which was the biggest ever increase.
The upward trajectory in global forced displacement showed no sign of slowing in 2023 as the eruption of conflict in Sudan triggered new outflows, pushing the global total to an estimated 110 million by May.
Of the global total, 35.3 million were refugees, people who crossed an international border to find safety, while a greater share – 58 percent, representing 62.5 million people – were displaced in their home countries due to conflict and violence.
The war in Ukraine was the top driver of displacement in 2022. The number of refugees from Ukraine soared from 27,300 at the end of 2021 to 5.7 million at the end of 2022 – representing the fastest outflow of refugees anywhere since World War II.
Estimates for the number of refugees from Afghanistan were sharply higher by the end of 2022 due to revised estimates of Afghans hosted in Iran, many having arrived in previous years.
Similarly, the report reflected upward revisions by Colombia and Peru of the numbers of Venezuelans, mostly categorized as “other people in need of international protection,” hosted in those countries.
The figures also confirmed that, whether measured by economic means or population ratios, it remains the world’s low- and middle-income countries – not wealthy states – that host most displaced people.
The 46 least-developed countries account for less than 1.3 percent of global gross domestic product, yet they hosted more than 20 percent of all refugees.
Funding for the numerous displacement situations and to support hosts lagged behind needs last year, remaining sluggish in 2023 as requirements increase.
While the total figure of displaced continued to grow, the Global Trends report also showed that those forced to flee are not condemned to exile, rather, they can and do go home, voluntarily and safely.
In 2022, over 339,000 refugees returned to 38 countries, and though was lower than the previous year, there were significant voluntary returns to South Sudan, Syria, Cameroon, and Côte d’Ivoire.
Meantime, 5.7 million internally displaced people returned in 2022, notably within Ethiopia, Myanmar, Syria, Mozambique, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
At the end of 2022, an estimated 4.4 million people worldwide were stateless or of undetermined nationality, 2 percent more than at the end of 2021.
The Global Trends report was launched six months ahead of the second Global Refugee Forum, a major gathering in Geneva bringing together a range of actors to find new solutions for and embed solidarity with people forced to flee and their hosts.
The full-scale war in Ukraine, alongside conflict elsewhere and climate-driven upheaval, meant more people than ever remained uprooted from their homes last year, heightening the urgency for immediate, collective action to alleviate the causes and impact of displacement, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, said today (14 Jun).
UNHCR’s flagship annual report, Global Trends in Forced Displacement 2022, found that by the end of 2022, the number of people displaced by war, persecution, violence, and human rights abuses stood at a record 108.4 million, up 19.1 million on a year earlier, which was the biggest ever increase.
The upward trajectory in global forced displacement showed no sign of slowing in 2023 as the eruption of conflict in Sudan triggered new outflows, pushing the global total to an estimated 110 million by May.
Of the global total, 35.3 million were refugees, people who crossed an international border to find safety, while a greater share – 58 percent, representing 62.5 million people – were displaced in their home countries due to conflict and violence.
The war in Ukraine was the top driver of displacement in 2022. The number of refugees from Ukraine soared from 27,300 at the end of 2021 to 5.7 million at the end of 2022 – representing the fastest outflow of refugees anywhere since World War II.
Estimates for the number of refugees from Afghanistan were sharply higher by the end of 2022 due to revised estimates of Afghans hosted in Iran, many having arrived in previous years.
Similarly, the report reflected upward revisions by Colombia and Peru of the numbers of Venezuelans, mostly categorized as “other people in need of international protection,” hosted in those countries.
The figures also confirmed that, whether measured by economic means or population ratios, it remains the world’s low- and middle-income countries – not wealthy states – that host most displaced people.
The 46 least-developed countries account for less than 1.3 percent of global gross domestic product, yet they hosted more than 20 percent of all refugees.
Funding for the numerous displacement situations and to support hosts lagged behind needs last year, remaining sluggish in 2023 as requirements increase.
While the total figure of displaced continued to grow, the Global Trends report also showed that those forced to flee are not condemned to exile, rather, they can and do go home, voluntarily and safely.
In 2022, over 339,000 refugees returned to 38 countries, and though was lower than the previous year, there were significant voluntary returns to South Sudan, Syria, Cameroon, and Côte d’Ivoire.
Meantime, 5.7 million internally displaced people returned in 2022, notably within Ethiopia, Myanmar, Syria, Mozambique, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
At the end of 2022, an estimated 4.4 million people worldwide were stateless or of undetermined nationality, 2 percent more than at the end of 2021.
The Global Trends report was launched six months ahead of the second Global Refugee Forum, a major gathering in Geneva bringing together a range of actors to find new solutions for and embed solidarity with people forced to flee and their hosts.
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