With refugee resettlement at a record low in 2020, UNHCR calls on States to offer places and save lives
Nordic Region, 25 January 2021 Despite an estimated 1.44 million refugees in urgent need of resettlement globally, only 22,770 were resettled through UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, last year. This is according to new annual statistics from UNHCR. These are the lowest refugee resettlement numbers the agency has witnessed in almost two decades. The drop [...]