More than two million refugees unable to return home or stay in their host country due to insecurity or lack of space will need to be transferred to third countries in 2023, the UN announced on Tuesday 21 June. .
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This represents a jump of 36% compared to this year's needs, estimated at 1.47 million people, said a spokeswoman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Shabia Mantoo, during presentation of these statistics.
This increase is notably attributed "
to the humanitarian consequences of the pandemic and the emergence of new displacement situations over the past year
", she said.
Seats are rare
“
Resettlement
” is the transfer of refugees from a country of asylum to another state that has agreed to admit them and eventually grant them permanent residence.
For the seventh consecutive year, Syrian refugees (approximately 777,800 refugees in need of resettlement) are among those with the highest resettlement needs, followed by refugees from Afghanistan (274,000), Democratic Republic of Congo (190,400), South Sudan (117,600) and Burma (more than 114,000).
Many of those from Burma are from the Muslim Rohingya minority and are stateless.
The resettlement procedure offers protection and a durable solution to tens of thousands of refugees every year.
But the places offered by the countries are rare and their number largely insufficient.
In 2020, border closures and travel restrictions due to the Covid pandemic have in many cases necessitated a temporary suspension of movements to resettlement countries, causing refugee resettlement to fall to an all-time low, with only 22,800 departures that year.
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The number of resettled refugees doubled last year, to 39,266 people.
But the solutions found are well below the needs, assessed last year at more than 1.44 million places.
Only a few States participate in the UNHCR resettlement programme.
The main resettlement countries in the world are the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and the Nordic countries.
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