Friday, June 19, 2009

UN statistics: Palestinian refugees are the largest and longest standing refugee population world wide.

Statistics released by UN agencies on the occasion of World Refugee Day testify to the fact that Palestinian refugees and the largest and longest standing refugee population world wide. Full story - Badil

By the end of 2008, at least 71 percent (7.6 million) of the entire, worldwide Palestinian population (10.6 million) were forcibly displaced persons. Among them were at least 7.1 million Palestinian refugees and 455,000 internally displaced persons. Only 28.7 percent of the entire Palestinian population worldwide have never been displaced. Full report - Badil