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Jul 19, 2023 · July 19, 2023. News Refugee Camps. Inside the world's five largest refugee camps. Where do people go when they are forced to flee their homes? Many displaced people find refuge in cities and urban shelters, but that’s not always an option. Millions of people live in refugee camps — temporary facilities built to respond to specific emergencies.
This interactive map, created in commemoration of World Humanitarian Day (August 19th), identifies the 10 most populous refugee camps in the world, drawing attention to the plight—and the resilience—of the planet's most vulnerable populations, and to the organizations working tirelessly to protect them.
Aug 25, 2023 · What is life like inside the world’s biggest refugee camp? Six years after Myanmar's brutal crackdown, Al Jazeera explores the current living conditions in Rohingya refugee camps. By...
UNHCR helps to save lives and build better futures for the millions of people forced to flee their homes. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple crises on multiple continents, and provided ...
Jun 16, 2022 · asylum seekers. migration. A staggering 100 million people have now been forced to flee their homes globally, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Thursday, highlighting worldwide food...
There were 110 million people forcibly displaced world-wide at the end of June 2023. Among those were 36.4 million refugees, (30.5 million refugees under UNHCR's mandate, and 5 ...
Feb 21, 2012 · GENEVA, 21 February (UNHCR) - This year is the 20th anniversary of the world's biggest refugee camp, Dadaab in north-eastern Kenya. UNHCR, which manages the Dadaab complex, set up the first camps there between October 1991 and June 1992.
