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UN High Commissioner on Refugees

so many in need / so few seeking to return those homeless due to civil wars and wars of occupation

At Press Release (mid-year, 2009) -- estimate stands at 42 million worldwide:

"The overwhelming burden of displacement is borne by developing countries," said Guterres. "Eighty percent of refugees are in the developing world. Generosity and wealth are not proportional to each other."

Although the overall total of 42 million uprooted people at year's end represents a drop of about 700,000 over the previous year, new displacement in 2009 – not reflected in the annual report – has already more than offset the decline.

Among recent and continuing displacement crises, Guterres cited Pakistan, where up to 2 million people have been uprooted by violence between the government and militant forces this year, as "the most challenging protection crisis since Rwanda [in the mid-1990s]."

"The failure to deliver proper humanitarian assistance to the displaced in Pakistan," he said, could have serious security implications.

© UNHCR/F.FarhadUN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres releases the annual '2008 Global Trends' report at the National Press Club in Washington.About 2 million refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) were able to return home in 2008, according to the UNHCR report, a decline from the previous year. It was the second-lowest repatriation total in 15 years and, in part, reflects the deteriorating security conditions in countries such as Afghanistan and Sudan.

The UNHCR report shows that the number of people the agency cares for globally stood at 10.5 million refugees at the end of 2008 while an additional 14.4 million people were uprooted within their own countries.

In recent years, UNHCR has increasingly been tasked under the UN's humanitarian reform process with providing help to the internally displaced, in addition to its traditional mandate of protecting and assisting refugees who have crossed international borders. Since 2005, the agency has seen the number of IDPs it cares for more than double.

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OK .... now it makes sense why they gave it to Obama. There isn't any good competition. (the dots are cricket sounds)