The UN has on June 13 announced it will in 2017 seek to resettle a record-high number – 170 000 – of refugees, who urgently need to be helped with a new place to live at.

AFP reports that the projected resettlement figure from the UN Refugee Agency shows an increase of nearly 30,000 people compared with the estimate for 2016, but it is still less than 15% of the 1.19 million refugees worldwide who will be in need of resettlement in 2017.

The estimated group mainly consists of refugees according to UN assessment will not be able to return home or integrate in their current host country and therefore expects to recommend that the 170,000 people most in need of resettlement should be moved to third countries.

Most of the refugees in need of resettlement are Syrians, as well as people from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq and Somalia.

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