世界難民日：2018年底有7080萬人流離失所

聯(lián)合國稱，2018年底有7080萬人流離失所

More than 70 million people were counted last year as displaced from their homes, a record that underestimates the real number of refugees and asylum seekers, the UN said on Wednesday.

聯(lián)合國周三稱，去年有超過7000萬人被統(tǒng)計為流離失所，這一記錄低估了難民和尋求庇護者的真實人數(shù)。

(AFP)

In its annual global trends report, the United Nations refugee agency described the figure of 70.8 million at the end of 2018 as “conservative,” particularly because the number of people who fled Venezuela’s devastating crisis is undercounted.

聯(lián)合國難民署在其年度全球趨勢報告中稱，2018年底7080萬人的數(shù)字是“保守的”，尤其是因為逃離委內(nèi)瑞拉毀滅性危機的人數(shù)被低估了。

At the end of 2017, by comparison, 68.5 million people were counted as being forcibly displaced by violence or persecution.

相比之下，2017年底有6850萬人因暴力或迫害被迫流離失所。

The UNHCR attributed the increase partly to surging displacement in Ethiopia caused by inter-ethnic conflict and in Venezuela, where thousands are fleeing every day amid an economic collapse that has triggered shortages of basic food and medicine.

聯(lián)合國難民署認為，難民人數(shù)增加的部分原因是埃塞俄比亞和委內(nèi)瑞拉因種族間沖突而造成的流離失所人數(shù)激增。委內(nèi)瑞拉每天都有數(shù)千人在經(jīng)濟崩潰的情況下逃離家園，經(jīng)濟崩潰導(dǎo)致基本食品和藥品短缺。