{"id":118926,"date":"2021-07-11T10:59:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T13:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missoeshumanitarias.org\/world-population-day\/"},"modified":"2021-08-04T12:04:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T15:04:41","slug":"world-population-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missoeshumanitarias.org\/en\/world-population-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Population Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Celebrated on July 11, World Population Day is intended to draw attention to the importance of establishing appropriate planning for the growth and development of populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the UN – United Nations<\/a>, there is an unequal population growth among nations, since the less developed have many challenges to overcome. Among them are the lack of food, the absence of health and education, the impossibility of access to decent housing, health care and family planning programs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evidence of Inequalities<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The inequality that generates increasingly vulnerable populations, and which has been demonstrated in the face of sudden climactic changes, has now become even more evident with the emergence of the Covid-19 Pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to what was announced by the UNFPA, United Nations Funds for Population Activities,<\/a> more than200 million women and girls who belong to the poorer populations, members of the indigenous rural communities, want to delay or prevent pregnancy, but have no means to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In these populations, there is a huge gap in family planning, preventable maternal deaths, gender-based violence, and harmful practices such as child marriages and female genital mutilation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another aggravating factor of inequality is human displacement, refugees and migrations, often forced by precarious living conditions, or by violence and political conflicts that are growing in number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Growth of the Migrant and Refugee Population<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Currently, international migrants and refugees represents 3.5% of the global population, in comparison with 2.8% in the year 2,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to data from the UNHCR, United Nations Refugee Agency<\/a> at the end of 2020, there were more than 80 million people<\/strong> around the would who were forced to leave their hometowns against their will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the latest edition of the Annual Report<\/a><\/strong> published by the the institution, the countries generating most refugees in the world are Syria and Venezuela, where the migratory flow entering Brazil originates. The Report also contains other important data, such as the estimate that between 2018 and 2020, one million children were born as refugees, and that 42% of the forcibly displaced people worldwide are under the age of 18. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actions of Agencies and Organizations in support of Refugees and Migrants<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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In Brazil, in the State of Roraima, important work is underway, developed by the Humanitarian Logistics Taskforce, which is responsible for the coordination of Operation Welcome, and has responsibilities in all of the logistics of the shelters, the infrastructure, the food contracts, the reception, security and the protection of the teams in partnership with the agencies of the UN<\/a>, the UNHCR<\/a> and governmental and civil organizations, among them, the Fraternity – Internati<\/a>o<\/a>nal Humanitarian Federation (FIHF)<\/a>, so that the migrant and refugee population can be duly welcomed and have access to decent living conditions <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UNICEF – United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund is active in the area of Education and Protection of children and adolescents, as well as healthy nutrition, hygiene and sanitation (WASH).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is the role of UNFPA<\/a>, which works with the questions of gender, sexual and reproductive health, also offering guidance to the LGBTI population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also active is the International Organization for Migration, IOI, which deals with a part of the migration, with squatting groups, which are the informal shelters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The activities of Humanitarian Fraternity (FIHF)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Humanitarian Fraternity (FIHF)<\/a><\/strong> is active in the management of five indigenous shelters, four being in the city of Boa Vista and one in the city of Pacaraima, all in Roraima, and also with the Transit Shelter in Manaus, ATM, where those who are ready to travel to other Brazilian States arrive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Anderson Santiago, lead missionary<\/a> of Humanitarian Fraternity (FIHF)<\/a>: “in each shelter we have, in partnership with UNHCR, a multifunctional team who is active twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Our teams are active in community participation, in protection, in the distribution of items of hygiene, in the resolution of conflicts, in bringing awareness on sensitive subjects, in the registration and updating of the census and the identification of the most diverse needs,” explains Anderson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Referrals related to questions of health and others, such as questions of social organization, documents or achieving benefits, are done by social assistants,” adds the missionary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n