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38 Million People Displaced by Conflict. Conflicts and violence in places like Syria and Ukraine have displaced a record 38 million people in their countries — equivalent to the total populations of New York, London and Beijing, a watchdog group said Wednesday.

38 Million People Displaced by Conflict

Nearly one-third of them — 11 million people — were displaced last year alone, with an average of 30,000 people fleeing their homes every day, the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said in a report. "These are the worst figures for forced displacement in a generation, signaling our complete failure to protect innocent civilians," said Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, which is behind the IDMC.

Ten things you didn’t know about refugees. Syrian children pull water bottles at the Bab Al-Salam refugee camp in Azaz, near the Syrian-Turkish border, on June 9, 2013.

Ten things you didn’t know about refugees

REUTERS/Hamid Khatib Today is World Refugee Day - and the latest statistics from the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) show world refugee numbers are higher than at any time since 1994. As U.N. refugee chief Antonio Gutteres put it at a recent news conference: “Each time you blink, another person is forced to flee.” UNHCR’s annual report shows that some 45.2 million people were uprooted by violence, persecution or rights abuses as of the end of last year, but the numbers also challenge some common misconceptions about refugees and displacement. Here are 10 things you may not have known. 1. Until you do, you’re just a person who’s been uprooted within your own country - or an internally displaced person (IDP), to use the aid world jargon. The difference matters because it’s only by crossing a border that you gain the protection of international laws and conventions. 2. 3. Protracted Refugee Situations.

View map in PDF Format Afghan Refugees in PakistanBhutanese Refugees in NepalBurmese Refugees in ThailandRefugees from Croatia and Bosnia in SerbiaLiberian Refugees in West AfricaSomali Refugees in Kenya What is a "protracted refugee situation"?

Protracted Refugee Situations

60,000 Bhutanese refugees resettled in US. Refugees. Revolution. Please support our site by enabling javascript to view ads. 6 OCTOBER CITY, Egypt — In the weeks after protesters swarmed Tahrir Square to demand the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's ever-growing population of refugees and asylum seekers hoped to forge their own revolution in the streets of this desert city just west of Cairo.

Revolution

The small-scale demonstrations that began after Mubarak's Feb. 11 departure, however, were not aimed at Egyptian officials, at least not directly. The target of their anger was instead the very agency mandated to protect them, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR, which is locally headquartered here.

Many refugees in Cairo, already socially marginalized and impoverished before the revolution, said they felt even more abandoned when the UNHCR evacuated its staff and suspended its services for nearly two weeks during the uprising. The woman, 38-year-old Nema Mohamed, was pregnant at the time. "I wanted to kill myself. Palestinian refugees making high fashion. Palestyle and Inaash both sell traditional embroidery made by women in refugee camps27-year-old Zeina Abou Chaaban started Palestyle as a social business two years agoIt sells in high-end department stores and boutiques (CNN) -- Women living in refugee camps are embroidering clothes and accessories sold in high-end department stores, through a business started by a 27-year-old Palestinian woman.

Palestinian refugees making high fashion

Zeina Abou Chaaban runs a social business called "Palestyle" selling embroidery made by Palestinian women in refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon. Humanitarian Crisis as World's Largest Refugee Camp Declared Full. The biggest refugee camp in the world is full, creating a humanitarian emergency that threatens thousands of malnourished children, a medical charity has warned.

Humanitarian Crisis as World's Largest Refugee Camp Declared Full

Somali refugees wait in line for food at the refugee camp in Dadaab, which Médecins sans Frontières says has exceeded its capacity. (Photograph: Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters) Dadaab, a sprawling desert "city" in Kenya with a population expected to reach 450,000 by the end of the year, has run out of space, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) said.

Children who have fled war in neighbouring Somalia are left without food or shelter in dry heat of 50C (122F) and are said to be vulnerable to attack by animals. "We've got nothing to build a shelter with," Fatima, a 34-year-old refugee from Mogadishu, told MSF. "It's very unsafe here – at night, we're scared that wild animals will eat the children, and we've had threats of violence from local people who say the land is theirs. Samaritan Side-Effects. By Shannon Golden, Nov 17, 2010, at 08:00 am Some of the 250,000 Darfur refugees living in Chad in late 2009.

Samaritan Side-Effects

Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran Victims of war or human trafficking are often in critical need of assistance; however, that assistance itself may carry unintended consequences. For example, Andrew Rasmussen and Jeannie Annan (Journal of Refugee Studies, 2010) argue that stress and negative mental health issues may not just be from experiences of trauma before arriving in the refugee camp, but may be a result of life in the refugee camp itself.