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Stark1 warnings over the inability of the international community to cope with record numbers of refugees forced to flee war zones provided the grim backdrop to events marking World Refugee Day on Saturday.
According to the UN High Commission for Refugees almost 60 million have been displaced by conflict and persecution2 around the world. More than half of them are children.
This makes every 1 in 122 people in the world a refugee, an internally displaced person or an asylum3 seeker.
Angelina Jolie, the UN Special Envoy4 for refugees says the current international refugee crisis is caused by a breakdown5 in global security and governance.
世界难民日:6000万人的逃亡之路
"Our world has never been richer or healthier or more advanced yet never before had so many people been dispossessed and stripped of their basic human rights. We should call this what it is. This is not just a refugee crisis, but a crisis of global security and governance that is manifesting itself in a world refugee crisis that is the worst ever recorded. This is a time, we are living at a time of mass displacement6."
Jolie visited a Refugee camp in Midyat near Turkey's border with Syria that has seen a massive influx7 of people fleeing persecution by the Islamic State, to mark World Refugee day on Saturday.
Last year, Turkey overtook Pakistan as the biggest refugee-hosting nation in the world, largely as a result of conflict in Iraq and Syria, where the war has entered its 5th year.
Turkey now hosts more than 2 million refugees and spends more than US$6 billion on helping8 Syrians alone.
Ahmad Lubbadah, a Syrian Refugee at the camp says he is dreaming of the day when he can return home.
"Today, we have lost our country. Our houses have been demolished9 and our children have been killed. We hope that we will be back home soon and that the situation will become stable. This is what I want."
With nearly four million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and Iraq, a heavy toll10 has been placed on the local population. Basic infrastructure11, including schools, hospitals and water supplies, has been placed under enormous strain.
It is less wealthy developing countries that host 86 per cent of the world's refugees.
UN High Commissioner12 for Refugees António Guterres warned that the scale of the current crisis was overwhelming international humanitarian13 organizations, and was threatening to destabilize the poorer host nations.
But some countries that have the capacity to help are instead shutting their gates to people seeking asylum.
More people have been forced to flee their homes last year than at any time since the United Nations started keeping records, and they predict the situation was likely to worsen still further.
For CRI, I'm Poornima Weerasekara.
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1 stark | |
adj.荒凉的;严酷的;完全的;adv.完全地 | |
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n. 迫害,烦扰 | |
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n.避难所,庇护所,避难 | |
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n.垮,衰竭;损坏,故障,倒塌 | |
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6 displacement | |
n.移置,取代,位移,排水量 | |
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n.流入,注入 | |
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n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的 | |
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v.摧毁( demolish的过去式和过去分词 );推翻;拆毁(尤指大建筑物);吃光 | |
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n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟) | |
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n.下部构造,下部组织,基础结构,基础设施 | |
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n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者 | |
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