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If production stagnates, caloric availability declines & child malnutrition rises to 20% in Asia-Pacific. Credit: ADB
By 2025, the total population of Asia and the Pacific region should reach about 4.4 billion. And over the next 40 years, Asia’s urban population is projected to increase from 1.9 billion to 3.2 billion.
The United Nations head of humanitarian operations for Lebanon on 22 June 2016 urged the international community to develop a comprehensive approach of support, or risk the implosion of a country that is vital to the regional dynamics.
City view of Beirut, Lebanon. Photo: World Bank/Dominic Chavez | Source: UN News Centre
At a press conference at UN Headquarters in New York this afternoon, Philippe Lazzarini, Deputy Special Coordinator for Lebanon, highlighted that when we first began his new post, Lebanon was described to him as a resilient country known for managing crisis on the edge.
The number of people displaced from their homes due to conflict and persecution last year exceeded 60 million for the first time in United Nations history, a tally greater than the population of the United Kingdom, or of Canada, Australia and New Zealand combined, says a new report released on 20 June 2016 on World Refugee Day .
In Yemen, internally displaced children stand outside their family tent after the family fled their home in Saada province and found refuge in Darwin camp, in the northern province of Amran. PhotO: UNHCR/Yahya Arhab
The Global Trends 2015 compiled by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) notes that 65.3 million people were displaced at the end of 2015, an increase of more than 5 million from 59.5 million a year earlier.
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