MANHATTAN: UNHCR has launched a $10 billion appeal for 2025 to meet implement sustainable solutions for 139 million refugees, displaced and stateless people in 136 countries and territories.
High Commissioner of UNHCR, Filippo Grandi, pointing towards ongoing conflicts and resulting displacement in countries like Sudan, Ukraine and Lebanon, stated: “We live in an era of relentless emergencies. Of crises without end.”
Filippo Grandi also noted the protracted nature of many refugee situations, including those involving displaced populations from Myanmar and the Congo.
Filippo Grandi, UN HC for refugees met delegations of Afghan refugees and asylum seekers here on 7th July, 2024 in Pakistan. He was visiting the region for three days, endeavouring to understand the problems of Afghan Refugees and Pakistan’s plans to repatriate them.
According to UNHCR: Of the 139.3 million targeted beneficiaries, 34 million (24 per cent) are refugees, 68 million (48 per cent) internally displaced, 12 million are returnees, and about 4.5 million are stateless people under the agency’s mandate.
Around $2.1 is required for UNHCR programmes in Middle East and North Africa, $1.2 billion in Europe, $957 million in Asia and the Pacific, and $815 million in the Americas.
Across the African continent, $2.1 billion is needed in East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes, $1.2 billion in West and Central Africa and $451 million in Southern Africa.
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