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UNHCR registered refugees by country/territory of asylum between 2022 and 2010 Country/territory of asylum Refugees per 1,000 inhabitants in mid-2015 [1] 2022 [2] 2019 [3] mid-2016 [4]
The list below includes the number of refugees per event with at least 1 million individuals included. This list does not include internally displaced persons (IDP). For events for which estimates vary, the geometric mean of the lowest and highest estimates is calculated to rank the events.
Prior to the 1951 convention, the League of Nations' Convention relating to the International Status of Refugees, of 28 October 1933, dealt with administrative measures such as the issuance of Nansen certificates, refoulement, legal questions, labour conditions, industrial accidents, welfare and relief, education, fiscal regime and exemption from reciprocity, and provided for the creation of ...
Without naming countries, Grandi said initiatives to outsource, externalise or even suspend asylum schemes were in breach of international law, and he offered countries help in finding fair, fast ...
Thousands of refugees have sought asylum in Australia over the past decade, [1] with the main forces driving movement being war, civil unrest and persecution. The annual refugee quota in 2012 was 20,000 people. [2] From 1945 to the early 1990s, more than half a million refugees and other displaced persons were accepted into Australia. [3]
New security upgrades to the U.S. refugee admissions program will help block suspected criminals from entering the United States from "high-risk" countries.
Most refugees have arrived in smaller, poorer European countries. Poland has taken in an estimated 2 million; Ukraine's other EU neighbors — Romania, Slovakia and Hungary — have also seen high ...
Of those, 26.4 million (nearly a third) are refugees while 4.1 million were classified as asylum seekers and 48 million being internally displaced. 68% of refugees originates from just five countries (Syria, Venezuela, Afghanistan and South Sudan and Myanmar). 86% of refugees are hosted in developing countries, with Turkey, hosting 3.7 million ...