United Nations High Commission On Refugees: South Africa

United Nations Dept: Canada was ninth on the list compiled by the United Nations High Commission on Refugees. South Africa and the U.S. were first and second respectively in a year that saw an estimated 4.3 million people newly displaced. Of those, 800,000 were forced to flee their countries and become refugees, the report said, according to CTV. "We can be grateful only that the international system for protecting such people held firm for the most part and A new report by the United Nations reveals that Canada was among the world's top 10 refugee destinations in 2011, receiving 25,000 asylum applications. "2011 saw suffering on an epic-scale. For so many lives to have been thrown into turmoil over so short a space of time means enormous personal cost for all who were affected," Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said in a statement. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.