50 million children uprooted from home countries: UNICEF
Q. UNICEF found in an analysis of global data that 50 million children were forcibly displaced by war, violence or persecution. What number of these were displaced by violence and conflict?- Published on 08 Sep 16a. 27 million
b. 28 million
c. 30 million
d. 31 million
ANSWER: 28 million
According to UNICEF, close to 50 million children throughout the world are uprooted or forcibly displaced from home countries by violence, war and persecution.
- Analysis of global data revealed that 28 million of these children were displaced by violence and conflict including 10 million child refugees
- There were also one million asylum seekers whose refugee status is pending and close to 17 million children displaced within their own countries lacking access to humanitarian aid and critical services
- Close to 20 million other children have left their homes for various reasons including gang violence or extreme poverty
- Many are at risk of abuse or detention because they lack legal status and their well being cannot be systematically tracked
- Children are increasingly crossing borders on their own; close to 100000 minors applied for asylum in 78 countries in 2015 tripling the numbers from the year before
- UNICEF pointed to children accounting for disproportionate and growing proportion of people seeking refuge outside their birth countries
- Children constitute a third of the world’s population but half of all refugees
- In 2015, close to 45 percent of the child refugees under the UN refugee agency’s care came from Syria and Afghanistan
