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TRT: 02:22
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNHCR
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 15 JUNE 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
FILE – 8 – 13 MAY 2016, DIFFA REGION, NIGER
1. Various shots, Nigerian refugees
2. Wide shot, refugee settlement
3. Med shot, girls
15 JUNE 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
"I have been now High Commissioner for over six months and I would have liked, in presenting my first Global Trends report, I would really like to give you a positive story. The story is not good.”
FILE - 20-21 MARCH 2016, IDOMENI, GREECE
5. Close up, girl
6. Wide shot, refugee settlements by tracks
7. Pan left, Refugees sitting on tracks
8. Med shot, women and children walking
15 JUNE 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“Ninety percent of the forcibly displaced are displaced in poor or middle-income countries, not in the rich world, contrary to the perception that most people, certainly in the rich world, have."
FILE - 7 JUNE 2016, AMERIYAT AL-FALLUJA, IRAQ
10. Various shots, displaced families by tents
11. Close up, Mother and child sleeping
12. Wide shot, displaced families by tents
13. Wide shot, people behind a fence
14. Med shot, women lined up to receive aid
15 JUNE 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
“I think what the refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean and arriving on the shores of Europe, the message that I have carried is that, if you don’t solve problems, problems will come to you. And that’s a powerful message. It’s a painful message, and it’s painful that it has taken so long for people in the rich countries to understand that.”
FILE - 13 MAY 2016, SICILY, ITALY
16. Various shots, Italian rescue boat
17. Close up, man and child on board
18. Various shots, migrants at the port
The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said 65.3 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide in 2015 shattering the previous year’s record of 59.5. According to the UNHCR’s Global Trends report, there were more asylum-seekers, internally displaced, and refugees than the populations of the United Kingdom, France or Italy.
The report said this number included 21.3 million refugees, marking the largest number since the early 90’s, half of whom came from three countries, Syria, Afghanistan, and Somalia. The report also registered 40.8 million internally displaced people which is the highest number on record.
UNHCR said while Europe’s struggle to manage its refugee crisis in 2015 dominated world attention, the report showed that 90 percent of the refugees and displaced were in low and middle income countries. Turkey was the biggest host country with 2.5 million refugees, while Lebanon hosted the largest number of refugees compared to its populations with 183 refugees for every 1,000 inhabitants.
UNHCR said 24 people were forcibly displaced per minute and the effects were particularly devastating for children. The Global Trends report also said 51 percent of the world’s refugee population and in all, 98,400 asylum requests also came from children who were unaccompanied or separated from their families. UNHCR said this was the highest total it had seen and said it was a tragic reflection of how global forced displacement is disproportionately affecting young lives.
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