U.N. High Commission for Refugees

U.N. High Commission for Refugees: The Year 2012 was marked by refugee crises reaching levels unseen in the previous decade, said the U.N. High Commission for Refugees global trend report released this week, according to The Star. Many of the 1.1 million refugees who managed to escape their homelands came from the conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, Syria and the border area between South Sudan and Sudan and An estimated 7.6 million people had to leave their homes due to conflict or persecution last year, including 1.1 million new refugees who fled to another country for safety, says the United Nations. An average of 3,000 people per day became refugees in 2012, five times more than in 2010. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.