Skopje, 19 June 2024 (MIA) - The Global Trends report on forcible displacement worldwide is in the 12th year of increase. By December 2023, states say that more than 117 million were forcibly displaced. This means that 1.5 percent of the humanity is uprooted as a consequence of gross violations of human rights, Gabriel Gualano de Godoy, Representative for the UNHCR Office in North Macedonia, has stated.

In an interview ahead of the World Refugee Day, June 20, with MIA, Godoy calls it “a sad world record.”

“This is a world record, a sad record. We are marking the World Refugee Day to make a call for a stronger alliance for inclusion in protection of refugees around the world,” he says. 

According to him, the main reasons for the increase in the number of displaced people are conflicts.

“The main reasons are conflicts, conflicts that are not yet resolved, old conflicts that are still ongoing, and then new and mutating conflicts and that arising. So, the difficulty to address the root causes of war and the lack of responsibility sharing are the main aspects that are causing difficulties to not produce more refugees,” Godoy says.

MIA will publish the entire interview with the UNHCR official on Thursday, in which he speaks about the will of the international community to help refugees as well as the situation involving refugees in North Macedonia and potential solution.

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