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On Refugee Day, UN Chief calls on world to "open our hearts"
22.06.2015 08:02 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
As of Jun 20, on the World Refugee Day, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the world to remember the plight of the millions of people worldwide who had been forced to flee their homes as a result of conflict and persecution, UN Radio reports.
As to the report, the UN estimats that at the end of 2014, close to 60 million people - the highest number on record - were forcibly displaced around the globe.
This means that one in every 122 human beings today is either a refugee, internally displaced or seeking asylum.
Stephanie Coutrix reports.
Reportedly, Ban Ki-moon stressed that the ongoing conflict in Syria, as well as crises in Iraq, Ukraine, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, northeastern Nigeria and parts of Pakistan, had led to a staggering growth and acceleration of global forced displacement.
As to the report, he also said that refugees are people like anyone else.
«Like you and me», he emphasized.
He added that they had led ordinary lives before becoming displaced, and their biggest dream is to be able to live normally again.
It is to be admitted, the UN Refugee Agency estimates that in 2014, 42,500 people became refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced every single day.
This rate has reportedly quadrupled in just four years.
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