According to the United Nations, the number of people displaced by war, violence and persecution recorded a slight drop compared to the record, but remains ‘unsustainably high’
The number of people displaced by the homes around the world has registered a slight drop in comparison with the record, but remains “unsustainably high,” warned the This Thursday (12). The number of war, violence and persecution reached the record of 123.2 million at the end of 2024, but fell to 122.1 million in late April this year because many Syrians were able to return to their homes after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad regime, said the in your annual report. Almost two million Syrians returned to their homes from abroad or other locations within the country, after years of war.
UNHCR, however, warned that the evolution of great conflicts around the world will determine whether the number will increase again. According to the agency, the number of people forcibly displaced is “unsustainly high”, in particular in a period of reduced humanitarian financing. “We are experiencing a period of great volatility in international relations, in which modern war is creating a fragile and devastating scenario, marked by acute human suffering,” said Filippo Grandi, UN’s high commissioner for refugees.
“We must redouble our efforts to seek peace and find lasting solutions for refugees and others forced to escape their homes,” he added in a context in which funding records drastic fall, not just for the removal of humanitarian aid from the United States. The main causes of forced displacements remain the great conflicts: Sudan, Myanmar, Ukraine.
After 13 years of Civil War in Syria and Assad’s fall in December 2024, many Syrians returned to their homes in the early months of 2025. Until mid -May, more than 500,000 Syrians returned to their country from abroad. And nearly 1.2 million internal displaced people have returned to their regions since the end of November. According to UNHCR, by the end of 2025 nearly 1.5 million Syrians from abroad and two million internal displaced people can return to their homes. Sudan, where the civil war causes destruction since April 2023 and facing a serious humanitarian crisis that forces people to abandon their homes, is currently the country with the largest number of forced displaced people: 14.3 million.
*With information from AFP
