GENEVA – Kira-kira 6.7 juta orang tambahan dijangka akan dipindahkan di seluruh dunia menjelang akhir tahun depan, kata Majlis Pelarian Denmark pada Jumaat, sama seperti pemotongan bantuan daripada penderma utama berkuat kuasa.

Agensi pelarian PBB berkata tahun lalu bahawa jumlah orang yang dipindahkan secara paksa di seluruh dunia berjumlah lebih 117 juta orang dan memberi amaran bahawa jumlah itu boleh meningkat.

“Ini bukan statistik kaku. Ini adalah keluarga yang terpaksa meninggalkan rumah mereka, tidak membawa apa-apa, dan mencari air, makanan, dan tempat tinggal,” kata Charlotte Slente, setiausaha agung Majlis Pelarian Denmark dalam satu kenyataan.

Dua puluh tujuh negara menyumbang hampir satu pertiga daripada semua pemindahan global.

Unjuran ini berdasarkan model dipacu AI yang meramalkan arah aliran pemindahan dengan menganalisis lebih 100 penunjuk, termasuk keselamatan, politik dan ekonomi di negara tersebut.

Ia meramalkan bahawa hampir satu pertiga daripada pemindahan baharu akan datang dari Sudan, yang sudah pun menjadi krisis pelarian terburuk di dunia selepas hampir dua tahun perang.

“Kebuluran telah digunakan sebagai senjata perang, mendorong Sudan daripada satu bencana kebuluran kepada yang lain,” kata laporan itu.

1.4 juta lagi orang dijangka dipindahkan secara paksa dari Myanmar, kata laporan itu.

AS memotong berbilion dolar dalam program bantuan asing di seluruh dunia sebagai sebahagian daripada baik pulih perbelanjaan yang ketara oleh penderma bantuan terbesar dunia itu.

Majlis Pelarian Denmark adalah salah satu kumpulan bantuan yang terjejas dan telah mempunyai lebih daripada 20 penamatan kontrak.
Pemotongan dari Washington dan penderma utama lain sudah memberi kesan kepada pelarian.

Agensi pelarian PBB berkata bahawa kekurangan pembiayaan telah menutup program untuk melindungi remaja perempuan daripada perkahwinan kanak-kanak di Sudan Selatan dan rumah selamat untuk wanita pelarian yang berisiko dibunuh di Ethiopia.

“Berjuta-juta orang menghadapi kebuluran dan perpindahan, dan sama seperti mereka amat memerlukan kita, negara-negara kaya mengurangkan bantuan. Ia adalah pengkhianatan kepada mereka yang paling terdedah,” kata Slente.

Dia mengecam keputusan untuk membatalkan 83 peratus program bantuan kemanusiaan USAID di seluruh dunia.

Slente berkata: “Kami berada di tengah-tengah ‘ribut sempurna’ global: permindahan rekod, keperluan yang melonjak dan pemotongan pembiayaan yang dahsyat.”

Dia berkata penderma utama “meninggalkan tugas mereka, menyebabkan berjuta-juta menderita. Ini lebih daripada krisis. Ia adalah kegagalan moral.”

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GENEVA – Some 6.7 million additional people are expected to be newly displaced worldwide by the end of next year, the Danish Refugee Council said on Friday, just as aid cuts from key donors take effect.

The UN refugee agency said last year that the number of forcibly displaced people around the globe stood at over 117 million people and warned that number could rise.

“These are not cold statistics. These are families forced to flee their homes, carrying next to nothing, and searching for water, food, and shelter,” said Charlotte Slente, secretary-general of the Danish Refugee Council in a statement.

Twenty-seven countries account for nearly a third of all global displacements.

The projection is based on an AI-driven model that predicts displacement trends by analyzing over 100 indicators, including security, politics, and economics in those countries.

It forecasts that nearly a third of new displacements will be from Sudan, which is already the world’s worst refugee crisis after almost two years of war.

“Starvation has been used as a weapon of war, pushing Sudan from one catastrophic famine to another,” the report said.

Another 1.4 million people are expected to be forcibly displaced from Myanmar, the report said.

The US is cutting billions of dollars in foreign aid programs globally as part of a significant spending overhaul by the world’s biggest aid donor.

The Danish Refugee Council is one of the aid groups hit and has had more than 20 contract terminations.
Cuts from Washington and other key donors are already impacting refugees.

The UN refugee agency said that funding shortages had shuttered programs to protect adolescent girls from child marriage in South Sudan and a safe house for displaced women in danger of being killed in Ethiopia.

“Millions are facing starvation and displacement, and just as they need us most, wealthy nations are slashing aid. It’s a betrayal of the most vulnerable,” said Slente.

She blasted the decision to cancel 83 percent of USAID’s humanitarian aid programs around the world.

Slente said: “We’re in the middle of a global ‘perfect storm’: record displacement, surging needs, and devastating funding cuts.”

She said major donors “are abandoning their duty, leaving millions to suffer. This is more than a crisis. It is a moral failure.”

AN-AFP/REUTERS


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