Number of displaced to surpass record 60 million

Antonio Guterres, the outgoing UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said the number was an indication that one in every 122 humans has been forced from their home.

The UN refugee agency released a report showing rocketing numbers of people living as refugees, asylum-seekers or displaced within their countries during the first half of 2015, and indicated that the full-year figures would be devastating.

“Never has there been a greater need for tolerance, compassion and solidarity with people who have lost everything”.

“I would point to the fact that both in Syria, where you have more than six million people internally displaced, but also in many other countries where we are seeing rising internal displacement, this is a big, big worry because internal displacement is often an early warning indicator of future refugee flows”, said Edwards.

The agency said it was anxious that the number of refugees who returned home during the first half of 2015 was at the lowest level in 30 years, as falling return rates indicate high levels of conflict around the world.

The UNHCR report does not include the hundreds of thousands of refugees who made the perilous journey to Europe across the Mediterranean nor the thousands more seeking refuge from many conflicts around the world during the last half of this year.

WORLDWIDE FORCED DISPLACEMENT is set to surpass 60 million people in 2015 for the first time.

“2015 is on track to see worldwide forced displacement exceeding 60 million for the first time – 1 in every 122 humans is today someone who has been forced to flee their homes”, the UNHCR’s said in a statement. New refugee numbers have gone up considerably with 839,000 refugees in just six months who have crossed global borders.

In addition to the Syrian crisis and Ukraine crisis, the reports cites “the outbreak of armed conflicts or deterioration of ongoing ones” in Afghanistan, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, Somalia, South Sudan among others, that have contributed to prevailing trends. By June, there were 20.2 million refugees around the world, the highest number since 1992.

The compensation is limited to the families that moved to court only as the judge said he is not aware of status of families that had not come to court.

Surrounding countries continue to be impacted heavily by the crisis, with the number of registered Syrians in Turkey (1.8 million), Lebanon (1.2 million), Jordan (628,800), Iraq (251,300), and Egypt (131,900) remaining high.

Turkey recorded more than 43,600 asylum applications filed with UNHCR during the first half of 2015, making the country the fourth-largest recipient of individual asylum applications worldwide.