55 联合国小组报告指出全球难民日益增多

 

US Group Reports Refugee Situation Growing Worldwide

Barbara Schoetzau

New York

20 Jun 2001 21:44 UTC

 

The independent U.S. Committee for 1)Refugees is observing the first international "World Refugee Day" Wednesday with the release of its annual report about 2)uprooted¹ people in 131 nations. The United Nations is also 3)commemorating the 50th anniversary of the U.N. 4)Convention on the Status of Refugees.

The United Nations estimates about 22 million people in the world are refugees. But the U.S. Committee for Refugees says the figure climbs to almost 35 million if internally 5)displaced persons are included.

The senior policy analyst² at the U.S. Committee for Refugees, Jeff Drumta, says the number of people uprooted in increasing.

"The five primary sources of uprooted people in the world are Sudan, which has produced 4.4 million; Afghanistan, four million; the Palestinians, who number four million," he said. "The fourth largest producer is Colombia, which is the source of 2.1 million uprooted people, and then Congo-Kinshasa, 2.1 million."

At the same time, Mr. Drumta says the U.N. refugee agency is facing what could be the worst financial 6)crisis in its history. He says the U.N. agency's 7)budget has had a deficit³ of more than $100 million in each of the past two years.

"This has a real 8)impact on refugees in the field - refugee camps where food rations⁴ are cut, refugee camps where medical care is reduced, medicines are not in the clinics," he said. "We have been in camps where new latrines cannot be built. So these dollar amounts have real impact on real people and it is very visible to refugees and the people who are trying to 9)assist them."

Mr. Drumta says the funding 10)shortages are due largely to reductions from European donor⁵ nations.

The lack of money may be the major issue facing the U.N. agency and other groups working to help refugees. But it is not the only one. The policy director at the U.S. Committee for Refugees, Bill Frelick, says another concern is refugee safety.

"The idea that refugees cross a 11)border, say from Sierra Leone into Guinea, only to have the refugee camps in Guinea 12)overrun by violence and the camps themselves attacked as well," he said. "The same thing in East Timor, West Timor, where the camps in West Timor are controlled by militias⁶. This is really unacceptable that people fleeing for safety, fleeing 13)persecution⁷ will then be 14)subjected to those horrors all over again. In Africa alone, about two million refugees fled last year from areas where they were fleeing war and persecution into areas that themselves were subjected to violence."

Mr. Frelick says the safety of humanitarian⁸ workers is also an issue. In the past nine years, 198 U.N. aid workers have been murdered on the job.

The United Nations General Assembly 15)unanimously adopted a resolution last December making June 20 World Refugee Day. The theme of this first observance is "respect" - respect for refugees, the contributions they make to societies, and respect for the 1951 Refugee Convention.

 

 

(1)      refugee[refjJ:5dVi:; (?@) 5refjJdVi:]n.难民, 流亡者

(2)      uproot[Qp5ru:t]vt.连根拔起, 根除

(3)      commemorate[kE5memEreIt]vt.纪念

(4)      convention[kEn5venF(E)n]n.大会, 协定, 习俗, 惯例

(5)      displace[dIs5pleIs]vt.移置, 转移, 取代v.转移

(6)      crisis[5kraIsIs]n. 决定性时刻, 危机, 危险期, 历史上的紧要关头

(7)      budget[5bQdVIt]n.预算vi.做预算, 编入预算

(8)      impact[5ImpAkt]n.冲突, 影响, 效果vt.挤入, 撞击, 对...发生影响

(9)      assist[E5sIst]v.援助, 帮助

(10)      shortage[5FC:tIdV]n.不足, 缺乏

(11)      border[5bC:dE(r)]n.边界, 国界vt.与...接壤, 接近v.接壤

(12)      overrun[EJvE5rQn]n.泛滥成灾, 超出限度vt.超过vi.泛滥, 蔓延

(13)      persecution[p:sI5kju:F(E)n]n.迫害, 烦扰

(14)      subject[sEb5dVekt]n.题目, 主题adj.未独立的, 受制于...的vt.使屈从于...,使隶属

(15)      unanimously全体一致地,无异议地

 

 

1 uprooted   

v.把（某物）连根拔起( uproot的过去式和过去分词 )；根除；赶走；把…赶出家园

参考例句：

• Many people were uprooted from their homes by the flood. 水灾令许多人背井离乡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The hurricane blew with such force that trees were uprooted. 飓风强烈地刮着，树都被连根拔起了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 analyst   

n.分析家，化验员；心理分析学家

参考例句：

• What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务？
• The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。

3 deficit   

n.亏空，亏损；赤字，逆差

参考例句：

• The directors have reported a deficit of 2.5 million dollars.董事们报告赤字为250万美元。
• We have a great deficit this year.我们今年有很大亏损。

4 rations   

定量( ration的名词复数 )； 配给量； 正常量； 合理的量

参考例句：

• They are provisioned with seven days' rations. 他们得到了7天的给养。
• The soldiers complained that they were getting short rations. 士兵们抱怨他们得到的配给不够数。

5 donor   

n.捐献者；赠送人；(组织、器官等的)供体

参考例句：

• In these cases,the recipient usually takes care of the donor afterwards.在这类情况下，接受捐献者以后通常会照顾捐赠者。
• The Doctor transplanted the donor's heart to Mike's chest cavity.医生将捐赠者的心脏移植进麦克的胸腔。

6 militias   

n.民兵组织，民兵( militia的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The troops will not attempt to disarm the warring militias. 部队并不打算解除战斗中的民兵武装。 来自辞典例句
• The neighborhood was a battleground for Shiite and Sunni militias. 那里曾是什叶派和逊尼派武装分子的战场。 来自互联网

7 persecution   

n. 迫害,烦扰

参考例句：

• He had fled from France at the time of the persecution. 他在大迫害时期逃离了法国。
• Their persecution only serves to arouse the opposition of the people. 他们的迫害只激起人民对他们的反抗。

8 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。