UN publishes report regarding refuges in the world

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The UN announced that “Iraq is the third country in the world in terms of the requests of its citizens for asylum abroad.”The High Commissioner of the United Nations for Refugees Affairs, Antonio Guterres, mentioned in a report published on Wednesday ”About (7,6) million persons became refugees during 2012 where the total number of refugees in the world reaches (45,2) million persons, reaching thereby to a record since 1994.””The security crisis in Syria contributed in increasing the refugees number since 55% of the refuges are from Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, Sudan, Syria and developing countries host 81% of the refugees in the world,” he added, pointing out that ”The refugees number increased by 11% comparing to ten years ago.” \END\