you look at their faces faces of loss homes villages even countries list their harrowing stories are a fear and flight and courage in 2015 3.2 million were seeking asylum the highest number in history there were 20 1.3 million refugees the highest number since the 1990s and 40 point 8 million were displaced in their own country the highest number ever a total of 65 point three million people force displacement has doubled in less than 20 years from 33 point nine million to more than 60 million people forced from homes driven to flee this is their testimony
Alicia hey avoid hello mana for me a pavement she saw ha ha blackness yo mean yellow heavy attack okay perceive me huh then what are only your pants Erica tambien increasingly this affects each one of us in 2015 one of every 113 people on the planet was either seeking asylum internally displaced or a refugee every minute 24 people were newly displaced in the world that's a population greater than all of France most were found in the Middle East and then Africa Europe had the smallest number and that included Ukraine and Turkey one of every 113
in the world that is a crisis yet escape resolve inequities the Weibull resilience knowledge to acquire booty kiss material it is not Syria this I think it's a kind of film my mother was shot during that crisis and my father has left us to come here and went back we don't know why is global displacement is higher than ever the main highlight is that we have an almost 10% increase of people on the move refugees displaced people asylum seekers from last year this is not good and we should not forget 90 percent of those people
are not in the rich world they are in developing countries in middle-income poor countries but it is the magnitude that strikes the most most of the world's refugees come from three countries Syria Afghanistan and Somalia the highest number of internally displaced are in Colombia Syria and Iraq in 2015 51% all refugees were children and almost 100,000 98 thousand four hundred exactly were alone unaccompanied or separated from their families those who flee bombs and terrifying their suffering isn't over hundreds have died in dangerous sea crossings organized by illegal smugglers and thousands more are blocked far from
their goal and many are simply pushed back instead of developing better asylum systems that are hospitable that recognize the hardship and the difficulties and the reasons for people to flee barriers are erected and the barriers need not be physical sometimes their legislative barriers we see this in Europe we see the lowering of the threshold in the quality of asylum law the numbers increase alarmingly the numbers are people individuals torn from peaceful lives driven into danger and exile sympathy is not enough money is not enough action bold action is needed to deal with a crisis spanning
the world
