28 June, 2017
"We estimate that there are over six million internally displaced people, many who have been displaced many times", he told SBS World News.
The latest annual global trends study from the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) reports that one person was forced to leave their home every three seconds in 2016.
The figures, released ahead of World Refugee Day on Tuesday, showed that a full 10.3 million of the world's displaced people fled their homes previous year alone, including 3.4 million who crossed global borders to become refugees. As of the end of 2016, there were 65.6 million people worldwide forcibly displaced from their homes by war, violence, or persecution.
At the end of 2016, there were about 40.3 million internally displaced people in the world, down slightly from 40.8 million a year earlier, with Syria, Iraq and Colombia accounting for the greatest numbers.
That number marks a jump of just 300,000 from the end of 2015, but is more than six million higher than at the end of 2014, according to a fresh report published by the United Nations refugee agency. The family fled from Yei in South Sudan to Uganda last autumn.
The number of people forcibly displaced from their homes is the highest since World War II.
Grandi made the remarks during the World Refugee Day commemorative ceremony held in Ethiopia's Gameblla regional state, which is housing South Sudanese refugees.
She said decades of fighting in Myanmar's border areas have resulted in one of the longest-running refugee and internally displaced situations in the region. Take a look at the World Refugee Day Facts on this day.
It's a day to "show sympathy and solidarity in words and actions - make a little space in our hearts for over 65 million people who depend on the worldwide community", Hebecker told the event attended by more than 300 people at the United Nations University in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward.
He says women, children and the elderly who are displaced are particularly at risk "because of restrictions on their capacity to move".
Turkey hosts the largest number of refugees (2.9 million) followed by Pakistan (1.4m) and Lebanon (1m).
On June 22-23, Uganda will host the solidarity summit on refugees, jointly organized with the UN Refugee Agency, mainly to raise more cash to manage the crisis.
"We're not expecting Japan to welcome 10 million refugees" at once, he said. The total number of displaced people worldwide - 65.6 million - has roughly doubled since 1997, and risen by 50 percent since 2011 alone, when the war in Syria began.
On World Refugee Day, the dignity, value, and potential of every one of these lives is honoured according to Molly Phee. Over 400,000 South Sudanese people have fled from their country to Sudan since fighting erupted in December 2013.
Syria is still the world's largest producer of refugees with an estimated 5.5 million living in Turkey and elsewhere.
"We hope that further progress on the peace talks can lay the groundwork for the peace and reconciliation needed for IDPs and refugees to return home voluntarily, in safety and dignity, in the near future", said Vivian Tan.
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