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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced today that more than two million refugees have fled the violence in Syria since the beginning of the conflict in March 2011. Antonio Guterres, UN high commissioner, said that, “Syria has become the great tragedy of this century.” He further noted that the crisis is rapidly accelerating; the first million refugees fled over the course of two years, but the second million have mostly fled in the past six months.
To see just how dramatically the war has affected the Syrian people, compare the figures below with the corresponding statistics for the months June 2012 here, August 2012 here, October 2012 here, and May 2013 here. The overall figures from Syria’s conflict below speak for themselves.
Length of Conflict
30 months
Deaths
Total estimated deaths: 110,371
Total estimated opposition deaths: 72,055 – 79,639
Total estimated regime deaths: 11,421
Opposition military: 14,956 – 17,682
Deaths by Province
Rural Damascus: 16,637 – 19,227
Al-Suweida: 48
UN Refugees – Registered or Waiting to be Registered
Total number of refugees registered or awaiting registration by the UN: 2,000,938
Total number of registered refugees: 1,826,684
Persons awaiting registration: 174,254
Turkey
Total number of registered refugees: 450,584
Persons awaiting registration: 13,301
Jordan
Total number of registered refugees: 492,526
Persons awaiting registration: 27,150
Lebanon
Total number of registered refugees: 613,806
Persons awaiting registration: 106,197
Iraq
Total number of registered refugees: 158,461
Persons awaiting registration: 13,523
Egypt
Total number of registered refugees: 97,018
Persons awaiting registration: 14,083
Aid
Total funding required Regional Response Plan for Syrian refugees: $2,981,640,112
Total funded: $1,798,219,062
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