The refugee challenge in the 21st century is changing rapidly. People are forced to flee their homes for increasingly complicated and interlinked reasons. Some 40 million people worldwide are already uprooted by violence and persecution, and it is likely that the future will see more people on the run as a growing number of push factors compound one another to create conditions for further forced displacement.
Today people do not just flee persecution and war but also injustice, exclusion, environmental pressures, competition for scarce resources and all the miserable human consequences of dysfunctional states
Read more at the UNHCR website…
Another article, from 17th June’s The Guardian, explains the complext relationship between conflicts fuelled by climate change and the amount of refugees worldwide. Antonio Guterres, UN Commissioner for the refugees, explains. Read more at The Guardian…
