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21 March 2014
Industrialized countries see 28 per cent jump in asylum applications – UNHCR Report

Latest News from UNHCR
Food shortages in South Sudan force more people into exile, cause friction
Local residents in Maban County demand that 60,000 refugees in Yusuf Batil and Gendrassa camps leave within two months. Hostilities spread to Doro and Kaya camps.

On a high seas rescue mission with the Italian Navy
A flotilla of five navy vessels has saved more than 10,000 people from overcrowded boats on the Mediterranean under an operation launched last year.

UNHCR report shows leap in asylum applications for industrialized countries
The “Asylum Trends 2013” report says 612,700 people applied for asylum in North America, Europe, East Asia and the Pacific last year – the highest total for any year since 2001.

Syrian families struggle to cope outside the protective umbrella of camps in Jordan
A new report co-written by UNHCR finds that half of refugee dwellings in urban areas are inadequate, while hundreds of thousands of Syrians struggle to pay the rent