Africa-Press – Angola. Immersed in a sea of social and economic problems, such as natural disasters, political tensions, wars with no end in sight, among other adversities, the world marks, this Friday (28), 72 years of the emergence of the “United Nations Convention for Refugees”.
The event takes place at a time when armed conflicts are multiplying in Africa, Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere, causing deaths, destruction, misery and, fundamentally, an increase in refugees.
Data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) show that more than one (1) in every seventy-four (74) people in the world have been forced to move.
According to the same source, there are at least 35 million refugees and 5.4 million asylum seekers.
Turkey and Iran emerge as the countries hosting the most refugees in the world, with 3.6 and 3.4 million, respectively.
These numbers have obviously been aggravated by the insecurity generated, in recent times, by conflicts such as those in Ethiopia, Democratic Congo, Central African Republic, Sudan and the (more mediatic) war between Russia and Ukraine.
The “naked truth” reflects that, in a clear demonstration of force, the violation of the commitment assumed in 1951 has, time and time again, the Convention’s signatories themselves as the main instigators – when they are not direct actors.
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