UNHCR Projected Global Resettlement Needs 2019

Publication language
English
Pages
92pp
Date published
25 Jun 2018
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Government, Forced displacement and migration, System-wide performance
Organisations
United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees (UNHCR)
Link
http://www.unhcr.org/news/press/2018/6/5b30ab0d4/gap-refugee-resettlement-needs-…

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today warned of a widening gap between the number of refugees in need of resettlement and the places made available by governments around the world.

In its Projected Global Resettlement Needs 2019 report tabled at its annual forum on the subject in Geneva, UNHCR said the number of refugees who need a solution in third countries had grown to a projected 1.4 million in 2019, while the number of resettlement places globally had dropped to just 75,000 in 2017. On these figures, it would take 18 years for the world’s most vulnerable refugees to be resettled.

Increasing opportunities for refugees to move to third countries is a key objective in the new comprehensive approach to refugee situations agreed to by 193 UN Member States in the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants in September 2016, and a central plank of a new global compact on refugees to come before the UNGA by the end of 2018.