2013年全球难民总数二战以来最高
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The number of people forced to flee their homes because of war or persecution1 exceeded 50 million in 2013, the UN refugee agency says.

联合国难民署称,2013年因为战争或者迫害而被迫离家的人超过五千万。
 
The overall figure of 51.2 million is six million higher than the year before, a report by the UNHCR says.
 
Antonio Guterres, head of the UNHCR, told the BBC the rise was a "dramatic challenge" for aid organisations.
 
Conflicts in Syria, central Africa and South Sudan fuelled the sharp increase.
 
"Conflicts are multiplying, more and more," Mr Guterres said. "And at the same time old conflicts seem never to die."
 
Of particular concern are the estimated 6.3 million people who have been refugees for years, sometimes even decades.
 
Internally displaced
 
People living in what the UN terms "protracted2(拖延的)" refugee situations include more than 2.5 million Afghans. Afghanistan still accounts for the world's largest number of refugees, and neighbouring Pakistan is host to more refugees than any other country, with an estimated 1.6 million.
 
Around the world, thousands of refugees from almost forgotten crises have spent the best part of their lives in camps. Along Thailand's border with Burma, 120,000 people from Burma's Karen minority have lived in refugee camps for more than 20 years.
 
Refugees should not be forcibly returned, the UN says, and should not go back unless it is safe to do so, and they have homes to return to. For many - among them the more than 300,000 mainly Somali refugees in Kenya's Dadaab camp - that is a very distant prospect3.
 
Some camps, the UN refugee agency admits, have become virtually permanent, with their own schools, hospitals, and businesses. But they are not, and can never be, home.
 
But the world's refugees are far outnumbered by the internally displaced (IDP) - people who have been forced to flee their homes, but remain inside their own countries.


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1 persecution PAnyA     
n. 迫害,烦扰
参考例句:
  • He had fled from France at the time of the persecution. 他在大迫害时期逃离了法国。
  • Their persecution only serves to arouse the opposition of the people. 他们的迫害只激起人民对他们的反抗。
2 protracted 7bbc2aee17180561523728a246b7f16b     
adj.拖延的;延长的v.拖延“protract”的过去式和过去分词
参考例句:
  • The war was protracted for four years. 战争拖延了四年。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • We won victory through protracted struggle. 经过长期的斗争,我们取得了胜利。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 prospect P01zn     
n.前景,前途;景色,视野
参考例句:
  • This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect.事态呈现出可喜的前景。
  • The prospect became more evident.前景变得更加明朗了。
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