Friday, June 20, 2008

UN warning on World Refugee Day


The reasons why people flee their homes are becoming increasingly complex and interlinked, the UN has warned as it marks World Refugee Day.

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says there are about 11m refugees worldwide and 26m internally displaced people.

It says that nowadays people do not just flee persecution and war.

Other reasons include injustice, exclusion, competition for scarce resources and the human consequences of dysfunctional states, it says.

See full Article.