United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: More than 45.2 million people either fled their own countries or were internally displaced in 2012, compared to 42.5 million the year before, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said in its annual global trends report, according to Huffington Post. "These truly are alarming numbers. They reflect individual suffering on a huge scale and they reflect the difficulties of the international community in preventing conflicts and promoting timely solutions for them," Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees and head of UNHCR, said in a statement and OTTAWA - Refugee numbers around the world are at their highest level since 1994, the United Nations refugee agency reported Tuesday in a sobering look at global displacement. War remained the dominant reason for displacement 55 per cent of all refugees came from five war-affected countries: Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, Syria and Sudan. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.