Milan, June 12 (LaPresse) – "By the end of April 2025, there were 122.1 million people forced to flee their homes, compared to 120 million at the same time last year, representing a decade of annual increases in the number of refugees and other displaced people. The main drivers of displacement remain major conflicts such as those in Sudan, Myanmar, and Ukraine, and the ongoing failure of politics to stop the fighting." This emerges from the UNHCR (UN) annual Global Trends report. "What the trends will be in the remaining months of 2025 will largely depend on the possibility of achieving peace, improving conditions for return, and the impact of current funding cuts on refugee and displaced situations worldwide," the organization adds. UNHCR denounces: "The number of people uprooted by war remains at alarming levels." The new annual Global Trends report was released: 73% of the world's refugees are hosted in low- and middle-income countries. Most, 67%, remain in countries neighboring conflicts. "Ongoing cuts to humanitarian aid risk causing further forced movements, including towards Europe and Italy," UNHCR writes. The number of people forced to flee due to war, violence, and persecution worldwide is unsustainably high, especially due to the evaporation of humanitarian funding, with the only positive element being the resumption of returns home, particularly in Syria, said UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.
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