Countries Need: Refugees and Beuze

countries need: But, with more than 65 million people forcibly displaced worldwide representing a new post-Second World War record -- wealthy countries need to do more to help, Beuze told CTVNews.ca in a telephone interview from Ottawa, according to CTV. Canada did extremely well last year by resettling many, mainly Syrian, refugees, Beuze said Tuesday, noting that refugees have seen huge support from local communityand faith-based organizations. On World Refugee Day, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR representative Jean-Nicolas Beuze said Canada has done its fair share of resettling refugees, especially with more recent efforts to welcome Syrian refugees. Earlier this year, the UNHCR praised Canada for resettling 46,700 refugees in 2016, a record number since 1978, when the Immigration Act came into effect. But Beuze said that 1.2 million people worldwide are in immediate need of resettlement, and Canada's refugee intake target for 2017 will accommodate only a small fraction. And according to UNHCR's latest global trends report, more than 97,000 people recognized by the UN as refugees were living in Canada at the end of 2016. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.