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Refugee camps

Camps for displaced people in Somalia are growing.

A new section of the Qansahley camp in Doolow,

in the southern Gedo region.

‘We Buried Him and Kept Walking’: Children Die as Somalis Flee Hunger

The worst drought in four decades,

and a sharp rise in food prices caused by the war in Ukraine,

have left almost half of Somalia’s people facing acute food shortages.

NYT

June 11, 2022 Updated 5:17 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/11/
world/africa/somalia-drought-hunger.html

An aerial view of the Zaatari refugee camp,

near the Jordanian city of Mafraq on July 18.

The civil war that has unfolded in Syria

over the past two and a half years

has killed more than 100,000 people

and driven millions from their homes.

Photograph: Mandel Ngan

Reuters

Boston Globe > Big Picture

Syrian conflict continues September 17, 2013

http://archive.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/09/
syrian_conflict_continues.html

In Amman, Jordan, eight-year-old Maram

is photographed resting in a refugee camp.

In Syria,

she had just returned home from school

when a rocket hit her house.

A piece of roofing landed on her

causing a brain haemorrhage.

She was in a coma for 11 days

and airlifted across the border to Jordan.

She is now conscious,

but has a broken jaw and is unable speak.

Photograph: IBL/Rex Shutterstock

The 20 photographs of the week

Saturday 2 May 2015 14.35 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/may/02/
the-20-photographs-of-the-week

Palestinian refugees in Yarmouk, Damascus,

queueing for food.

Photograph: AP

How Yarmouk refugee camp became the worst place in Syria

Thursday 5 March 2015 06.00 GMT

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/mar/05/
how-yarmouk-refugee-camp-became-worst-place-syria

A Syrian refugee removes water and mud around his tent,

at Zaatari Syrian refugee camp,

near the Syrian border in Mafraq, Jordan, on Jan. 8.

Syrian refugees in a Jordanian camp

attacked aid workers with sticks and stones on Tuesday,

frustrated after cold, howling winds swept away their tents

and torrential rains flooded muddy streets overnight.

Police said seven aid workers were injured.

Photograph: Mohammad Hannon

Associated Press

Boston Globe > Big Picture

Syrian refugees update 2013 April 10, 2013

http://archive.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/04/
syrian_refugees_update_2013.html

displaced people, refugees, migrants > camps UK / USA

2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/11/
world/africa/somalia-drought-hunger.html

2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/
us/mexico-migrant-camp-asylum.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/08/
migrant-children-in-greek-island-camps-to-be-relocated-across-eu

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/apr/07/
coronavirus-doesnt-respect-barbed-wire-concern-mounts-for-greek-camps

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/mar/27/
bosnia-crams-thousands-of-migrants-into-tent-camp-to-halt-covid-19-spread

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/mar/21/
fears-catastrophe-greece-migrant-camps-lockdown-coronavirus

2018

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2018/oct/24/
hairdressing-techno-making-living-worlds-largest-refugee-camp-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/19/
inside-world-largest-refugee-camp-uganda-south-sudan-civil-war

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/190518/
grande-synthe-les-exiles-kurdes-pleurent-mawda-2-ans-tuee-par-balle-en-belgique

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/02/08/
584043145/a-young-rohingya-mom-pregnant-stateless-living-in-limbo

2016

http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2016/feb/06/
inside-bab-al-salam-refugee-camp-in-pictures

http://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000004167019/
another-kind-of-girl.html - Jan. 27, 2016

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/mar/05/
how-yarmouk-refugee-camp-became-worst-place-syria

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/31/world/middleeast/
new-refugee-camp-in-jordan-absorbs-flood-from-syria.html

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/nov/18/
jordan-zaatari-refugee-camp-syria-shops

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/09/
syrian_conflict_continues.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/apr/19/
inside-syrian-refugee-camp

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/25/
rape-violence-syria-women-refugee-camp

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/01/27/world/middleeast/
growth-of-the-zaatari-refugee-camp.html

displacement camp USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/
world/middleeast/syria-coronavirus-idlib-tents.html

tent camp UK / USA

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/mar/27/
bosnia-crams-thousands-of-migrants-into-tent-camp-to-halt-covid-19-spread

camp / makeshift city UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/25/
zaatari-camp-makeshift-city-jordan

makeshift camp USA

ttp://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/09/
527639268/police-evict-up-to-1-600-migrants-from-makeshift-camp-in-paris

southeastern Bangladesh > Cox's Bazar refugee camps

Social distancing simply isn’t possible

for the 1 million Rohingya refugees

who live in Cox’s Bazar refugee camp,

in southeastern Bangladesh.

Families live in close quarters

inside flimsy bamboo shacks,

using communal toilets

and water facilities.

Sometimes the most basic items,

such as soap, are lacking.

Most of the Rohingya refugees

living in the camp fled there in 2017,

following a brutal crackdown

by the Myanmar military,

which the UN has since said

was carried out

with “genocidal intent”.

On top of psychological trauma,

many have underlying health conditions

that leave them especially

vulnerable to Covid-19.

The UN, and other agencies,

have raced to open new facilities

in Cox’s Bazar,

but equipment is still extremely limited,

and it is feared medical centres

could be quickly overwhelmed.

As of 28 June,

49 cases and five deaths

have been recorded.

Here we take a look at the conditions

in two of the camps and the experiences

of the people living there.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2020/jun/29/
not-fit-for-a-human-coronavirus-in-coxs-bazar-refugee-camps

emergency shelter USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/
world/asia/coronavirus-refugees-camps-bangladesh.html

settlement USA

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/12/22/
1220506014/rohingya-refugee-photographers-unhcr-nansen-award-bangladesh-myanmar

Bangladesh > the world's largest refugee settlement >

makeshift communities around Cox's Bazar district USA

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/12/22/
1220506014/rohingya-refugee-photographers-unhcr-nansen-award-bangladesh-myanmar

Bidi Bidi settlement in north-west Uganda UK

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2018/oct/24/
hairdressing-techno-making-living-worlds-largest-refugee-camp-in-pictures

overcrowded facilities UK

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/apr/07/
coronavirus-doesnt-respect-barbed-wire-concern-mounts-for-greek-camps

squalid USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/
us/mexico-migrant-camp-asylum.html

sanctuary

haven USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/world/europe/
syrian-refugees-in-turkey-ancient-haven-sees-signs-of-strain-
government-relocates-displaced-to-camps-in-south.html

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Wars, Conflicts, Climate, Poverty > Civilians >

Asylum seekers, Displaced people,

Migrants, Refugees > Camps

5 Surprising Facts

About The Refugee Crisis

June 20, 2017

12:00 PM ET

NPR

The number of people forcibly displaced from their homes is the highest since World War II.

According to a new report from the United Nations Refugee Agency, UNHCR, 65.6 million people are currently living as refugees or as displaced persons inside their own countries. This includes 10.3 million people who were uprooted from their homes in 2016.

Syria continues to be the largest source of refugees. According to the U.N., 12 million Syrians — more than half the country's population — have been forced from their homes. Five million have fled to neighboring countries and Europe, while the rest remain inside Syria, officially labeled as displaced persons.

Syria is also the largest source of new refugees: 824,000 in 2016. It was followed by South Sudan, where 740,000 people fled the country because of the brutal civil war. There are now 1.4 million South Sudanese refugees abroad, along with 1.9 million internally displaced people.

Neighboring Uganda has taken in hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese over the last three years. In 2016, the Bidi Bidi camp in Uganda grew so much it's now the largest refugee camp in the world, giving shelter to more than 270,000 South Sudanese.

Here are some of the surprising facts and trends from this new report.

1. A shockingly high percent of the world's displaced are kids.

More than half the refugees around the globe are under the age of 18, even though children make up 31 percent of the world's population.

2. Many of these kids are fleeing alone.

In 2016 alone, according to UNHCR, 75,000 children applied for asylum as "unaccompanied minors." Most were from Afghanistan and Syria. The country receiving the greatest number of requests for asylum for these children was Germany: 35,900.

3. The greatest burden of the global refugee crisis falls on low-income and middle-income countries.

Turkey remains the largest host of refugees globally, with nearly 3 million living inside its borders. Pakistan is second. Among the top ten host nations only one is a high-income country: Germany, at number 8 on the list, hosting 669,500 refugees and asylum seekers.

4. Most people who are driven from their homes by armed conflict don't end up officially as refugees.

If they haven't crossed an international border, the U.N. designates them as "internally displaced persons" or IDPs. In 2016 there were 40.3 million internally displaced persons around the world, far overshadowing the 25.3 million refugees. From the UN's perspective this is an important distinction. Refugees fall under the auspice of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and are entitled to certain rights and basic assistance. IDPs are the responsibility of their own government, often the government that failed to protect them in their homes in the first place.

5. Colombia has the highest number of IDPs in the world: 7.6 million.

A huge portion of its population are internally displaced because of the decades-long conflict between the FARC rebels and the government.

Syria had the second highest number of people listed as internally displaced last year, with just over 6 million.