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UN High Commissioner warns Security Council of worsening global displacement and urges renewed aid and diplomacy
Summary
Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, told the UN Security Council that global displacement is rising across Sudan, Ukraine, Myanmar, Syria and elsewhere, warned that humanitarian funding is falling and urged member states to act to protect refugees and support returns.
Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, told the UN Security Council that the world is in “a season of war” and that 123 million people are forcibly displaced worldwide, urging the council and donor countries to increase humanitarian funding, prioritize diplomacy and take political and economic risks to enable safe returns.
Grandi said the scale and geographic spread of displacement — from Sudan and the Sahel to Ukraine, Myanmar and Syria — has placed extraordinary strain on host countries and humanitarian responders and warned that shrinking aid budgets are already producing “fatal consequences.”
Grandi opened by thanking the council and the French presidency for the invitation and said this address was “quite likely” his last as high commissioner. He described multiple crisis fronts: widespread fighting in Sudan that has uprooted roughly one in three people in parts of the country; more than 3 million…
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