Displaced persons - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 12 Sep 2024 04:28:25 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Displaced persons - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Caritas Internationalis and ACT Alliance join forces to address imminent famine in Sudan https://cathnews.co.nz/2024/09/12/caritas-internationalis-and-act-alliance-join-forces-to-address-imminent-famine-in-sudan/ Thu, 12 Sep 2024 03:51:31 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=175696 In Sudan, 25.6 million people - over half of the population - now face acute hunger, with more than 755,000 people on the brink of famine. 10.7 million people are also displaced within Sudan and neighbouring countries, 7.9 million of which have been forced from their homes since the outbreak of civil conflict on 15 Read more

Caritas Internationalis and ACT Alliance join forces to address imminent famine in Sudan... Read more]]> In Sudan, 25.6 million people - over half of the population - now face acute hunger, with more than 755,000 people on the brink of famine. 10.7 million people are also displaced within Sudan and neighbouring countries, 7.9 million of which have been forced from their homes since the outbreak of civil conflict on 15 April 2023.

Over half of those displaced in Sudan itself are children under the age of 18 years, with reports from the UN describing them as having "endured more than a year of separation, human rights violations, trauma, violence, and lack of access to basic services".

In April of this year, the Sudan Catholic Bishops Conference raised concerns that "the international community has forgotten the Sudan crisis."

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Caritas Internationalis and ACT Alliance join forces to address imminent famine in Sudan]]> 175696 Vatican newspaper draws attention to surging numbers of displaced persons https://cathnews.co.nz/2023/06/19/vatican-newspaper-draws-attention-to-surging-numbers-of-displaced-persons/ Mon, 19 Jun 2023 05:55:26 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=160185 With the headline "In fuga per forza" [In flight through force], L'Osservatore Romano devoted the most prominent front-page coverage in its June 14 edition to a UN report on the rising number of victims of forced displacement. "At the end of 2022, 108.4 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced as a result of persecution, conflict, Read more

Vatican newspaper draws attention to surging numbers of displaced persons... Read more]]> With the headline "In fuga per forza" [In flight through force], L'Osservatore Romano devoted the most prominent front-page coverage in its June 14 edition to a UN report on the rising number of victims of forced displacement.

"At the end of 2022, 108.4 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations and events seriously disturbing public order," according to the report from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

"This represents an increase of 19 million people compared to the end of 2021 ... the largest ever increase between years according to UNHCR's statistics on forced displacement."

The UN agency's statement on the report noted that "Russia's invasion of Ukraine was the top driver of displacement in 2022. The number of refugees soared from 27,300 at the end of 2021, to 5.7 million at the end of 2022—representing the fastest outflow of refugees anywhere since World War II."

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