According to a report by UNICEF Number Of Displaced Children Surpassed 43 Million.
According to Anatoly, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported that the number of displaced children around the world reached 43.3 million by the end of last year, six months ago.
UNICEF Executive Director Kathryn Russell said: “For more than a decade, the number of children forced to leave their homes has increased at an alarming rate, and our global capacity to manage the situation continues to be under severe pressure. This increase in the number of displaced children has occurred due to the continuous increase in conflicts, crises, and climate disasters around the world.
UNICEF’s annual report notes that most displaced children have spent their entire childhoods displaced and that the number of children forcibly displaced from their homes has doubled in the past decade.
According to this report, the war in Ukraine forcibly displaced 2 million children and 1 million children were internally displaced.
The report states that of the 43.3 million children forcibly displaced by the end of 2022, nearly 60 percent (25.8 million) were displaced within their own countries due to conflict and violence.
Also, the number of refugee children has reached a new record of 17.5 million people in the world, which does not include the newly displaced children in 2023, including those displaced during the conflict in Sudan.
The report states that 940,000 children have been displaced by the conflict in Sudan so far, and it is also noted that extreme weather events around the world have displaced millions of children.
The number of refugees in the region is also different, and it was previously announced in a report that Arab countries differ in terms of accepting refugees according to their location. Based on this, Egypt has the first rank among Arab countries by hosting 5 million Sudanese refugees, both immigrants, and refugees. Also, Jordan is in second place hosting 2,967,657 Palestinian and Syrian refugees. Lebanon ranks third with 2,479,537 Syrian and Palestinian refugees.
Two weeks ago, the United Nations warned that as October approaches, we will witness a possible increase in the number of Sudanese refugees to one million people. Also, this international body announced that due to the ongoing conflicts in Sudan, it is likely that human trafficking and the distribution of weapons in this country – whose situation is unstable in every way – will increase.
The United Nations requested that aid worth 470 million dollars be sent to this organization to meet the needs of Sudanese refugees for the next 6 months.
Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, reported: “Relatively conservative estimates indicate the possibility of nearly one million Sudanese fleeing by October.”
