1.Why are there so may refugees coming from Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Myanmar and South Sudan?
Mainly because:
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People are fleeing their countries to seek safety
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Neighbouring countries have taken in the majority of refugees– but they can only do so much
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Lack of legal routes to safety
https://www.rescue.org/uk/article/3-reasons-why-theres-refugee-crisis-right-now
- How many refugees are children?
In Syria, there are more than 7 million children in need.
https://www.unicef.org/syria/situation-children-syria
In Afghanistan, there are 47 million children refugees and 2 million of them were born refugees.
https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics
In South Sudan, an estimated 476000 children are refugees.
https://www.savethechildren.org/us/about-us/media-and-news/2024-press-releases/south-sudan-refugees-fleeing-worlds-worst-humanitarian-crisis-in-sudan#:~:text=Almost 794%2C000 refugees and South Sudanese returnees%2C including,the Renk border found to be malnourished. [2]
In Myanmar, 37% of the 1,183,300 Refugees and asylum-seekers are children.
https://data.unhcr.org/en/situations/myanmar (child refugees)
https://myanmar.un.org/en/286215-myanmar-emergency-update-end-november-2024?afd_azwaf_tok=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJhdWQiOiJteWFubWFyLnVuLm9yZyIsImV4cCI6MTc0NDA5NzU3OSwiaWF0IjoxNzQ0MDk3NTY5LCJpc3MiOiJ0aWVyMS01NWJmNTRkNzZmLWtjcWRrIiwic3ViIjoiMzkuMTc0LjIyMC4xMDYiLCJkYXRhIjp7InR5cGUiOiJpc3N1ZWQiLCJyZWYiOiIyMDI1MDQwOFQwNzMyNDlaLTE1NWJmNTRkNzZma2NxZGtoQzFUWU9keDE0MDAwMDAwMDExMDAwMDAwMDAxNmRxcyIsImIiOiJKa2FDSklaWWFtMEQ4ZkFYQjFISnJMS01ianY1Yjk0U0tXSHFOUUN2TWhvIiwiaCI6IlZMNzlmSG5ZWUg2ZXBfaVYzVU5EYTRZd21yU0ZCWjFfZkt6SXJRTlhvcE0ifX0.LD1lQ1TtGVdI1_L2cVELZO41UO-oPrQmafeMbwRcviZM2CY8SVYTuXeq8VFn28sTumxPO7sF_OZ-RQeiZb1G-aZTfZlE84pQr5Fkgxrmrik113L5ykhRM4B9rcUUU0FeQ5MVjvMXccX34wORhZ0dRspNSjpwW4Y3dMGIOTBzZ_-cGIp4rMvmho7z0nc_j2ZtuysUSQvoIcsMAMa0NnDbI5hmZPFR3JVyyqdZXMtRI8EliYDTFGIyaKJPZ3-vBKum1jARzieiIfbxyIiIaK1aaQjIj_IvaVAZTYdp9GBtExZxwIQek6qU8D0_UzqKjC9ZQwhP4hQXuLCR-_P39Z4HHA.WF3obl2IDtqgvMFRqVdYkD5s(number of refugees)
In Somalia there are 35,461 refugees and some of them are children.
https://data.unhcr.org/en/documents/details/101056#:~:text=As of April 2023%2C Somalia was host to,further 2.97 million persons internally displaced inside Somalia.
Worldwide, about 49 million children had been displaced due to conflict and violence as of the end of 2023
https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-migration-and-displacement/displacement/
