Today, an estimated 43 million people are forcibly displaced around the world. Of those, around 27 million people are internally displaced due to war and armed conflicts, and 12 million people live in what the UNHCR names a nightmarish legal limbo of statelessness.

These were among the facts and figures put forward by Antonio Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, in his opening speech at the annual meeting of UNHCR’s governing Executive Committee in Geneva.

Protracted conflicts in a number of places around the world have created new semi-permanent global refugee situations. This has lead to needs for broader and better protection for the world’s refugees.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees appealed to a greater understanding of the increasingly more complex refugee problems, and for the members to renew and broaden support for refugees.

The Danish Refugee Council is one of the agencies working with the UNHCR to provide protection for the world’s refugees as well as to deliver emergency aid.

“We experience the increasingly more complex migrations and refugee problems. There is a growing need for ensuring emergency aid and for providing protection for the millions of people who are forcibly displaced because of natural disasters and armed conflicts,” says Andreas Kamm, the general secretary of the Danish Refugee Council.

The Danish Refugee Council is preparing the annual nationwide fundraising campaign on 14 November. The theme for this year’s campaign is emergency aid.  

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