On Tuesday, the UNHCR head said the world must rediscover its ability to bring peace to various crisis spots to reduce refugee flows.
One hundred ten million people are displaced worldwide, up from 103 million last year and 50 million a decade earlier.
The U.N. Security Council is broken. “They cannot agree on anything,” U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi told Reuters in Nairobi.
“So we need to restore that capacity to lead, to drive peace because that is the only way we can address these flows.”
This year, diplomats, former politicians, and U.N. officials sought political support for a peacemaking framework to set new conflict resolution norms.
The Sudanese civil war, which pits different armed factions, has contributed to the rise in refugees and internally displaced people.
“Today, right on World Refugee Day, we passed this horrible mark of 500,000 refugees from Sudan,” Grandi remarked.
A Monday meeting raised $1.5 billion for Sudanese refugees.
The high commissioner said some money would help 100,000 Sudanese refugees in Chad whose camps are endangered by the monsoon season.
“It is a very desperate race against time,” he added. He suggested a lasting ceasefire.
If the fighting continues, this is only the beginning. Unfortunately, we need more than $1.5 billion,” he said.
The conflicts in Ukraine, the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan, and the Sahel also increase refugees.
Grandi called for an international response to climate change, driving people to move.
“The time for working country by country is over,” he remarked.
