Responsibility sharing can solve the refugee crisis

A handful of countries are shouldering the burden of housing refugees, while rich countries increasingly refuse to take on the responsibility. How would the world look if there was a more just distribution of refugees?

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The world's most neglected displacement crises

Some humanitarian crises receive less attention and funding than others. Every year, we present a list of the top ten countries that the world has forgotten.

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68.5 million people displaced

19.06.2018 |

As we entered 2018, 68,5 million people were displaced from persecution and armed conflict. That's 2.9 million more than the year before. This is the sixth consecutive year where the overall number of displaced people in the world has increased.

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Reaching more communities in crisis

04.06.2018 |

Our annual report for 2017 shows how we expanded our work and were able to help more people than ever before.

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People displaced in Beni, North Kivu telling Jan Egeland why they dont dear return to their villages.

Only two months into 2018, and North Kivu province is returning as a hotspot in the crisis. A resurgence of inter-communal fighting and violent clashes between armed groups caused a dangerous spike in displacement in 2017. Some 1.2 million people are now displaced in the province – the highest number in any area in the country.

“Despite the resurgence of violence in North Kivu, critical funding is being pulled out of the province and into other areas, deemed by the UN as higher priority. Aid agencies are forced to juggle dwindling resources. It’s a life-threatening lottery on who wins and who loses – with lethal stakes. Areas that lose face sickness, disease and ultimately death,” said Egeland.

“The priority for DRC is a massive scale-up of funding and of aid workers in conflict areas, including North Kivu. Otherwise, the humanitarian community won’t be able to cope and will face certain calamity. We are already overwhelmed by what feels like a continent of crises, and we as humanitarians are so few and with no means to help.

DR Congo | 24. Sep 2018

Aid work suspended due to deadly attack in DR Congo

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) suspended all its activities in the north-eastern city of Beni and surrounding areas Monday, as a result of an armed group attack on Saturday.

Jordan | 19. Sep 2018

Syrian children prepare to go back to school in Jordan

In Jordan, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) makes sure that Syrian refugee children have a safe learning environment, where they can forget the war and be children again. We paid our summer school students a visit to learn about their hopes and dreams.

From left: Wijdan (9, black), Athnan (11, pink hijab), Fatima (9, blue hijab in the back), Basma (9, purple dress in front), Fikra (9, blue top).

Photo: Suze van Meegen/NRC

Yemen | 19. Sep 2018

"It felt like they targeted my heart"

"The whole neighbourhood lit up in red light and everything around us was shaking. I thought they would bomb us and took my family straight down to the basement," says Mohammed.

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Global displacement overview

Africa

Conflict, violence and drought forces millions to flee.

The global displacement figures

Yet again, the scope of displacement and subsequent humanitarian crises is at an all-time high.

Asia

Hundreds of thousands have fled from violence in Myanmar and Afghanistan

America

Trump turns the screws on refugees.

The Middle East

Civilians bear the brunt of international power play

Europe

Refugees are meeting closed doors

The Norwegian Refugee Council is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across 31 countries, where we help save lives and rebuild futures.

Perspectives

Sangamai Teka, 41, walks to the small plot of land where she plants "ndembe" (red beans). She and several other female farmers who were displaced during the Greater Kasai conflict of 2016-2017 have returned to less than they had before. Many of these women have lost children and spouses to the conflict. All of them struggle to make a living to sustain their families.

Over 1 million people have returned to their homes in Kasai-Central after a year of violent conflict within the province and across the Greater Kasai Region. Unfortunately, people who have returned have found their homes and fields pillaged and burned to the ground. These farming communities have no shelter, no food to eat and no means of sustaining any viable livelihood.

Earlier this year, NRC visited Mbulungu and Bakuakashila, two villages ravaged by the regional conflict in 2017. NRC used its “community-based approach” by consulting with these communities to better understand their primary needs, to properly target the most vulnerable people and facilitate their ability to choose the assistance they require.

This intervention, however, is only a drop in the ocean of the vast needs of this community. NRC is currently the only humanitarian actor in the zone and funding is not enough to address other acute needs such as food assistance, household items and education. The Humanitarian Response Plan is currently only 25 per cent funded eight months into the year. Humanitarian capacity is critically low. If donors do not act now for the people of Mbulungu and for the rest of DR Congo, it will be too late.

August 29, 2018- Kasai-Central Province, DR Congo
Photo : NRC/Aléxis Huguet

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Hans Christen Knævelsrud working on camp management for UNHCR in Zaatari Camp in Jordan (Photo: NRC/Christian Jepsen)

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