{"id":20014,"date":"2026-08-20T16:01:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/20\/un-refugee-agency-displacement-forced-safety-afghan-refugees\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T16:01:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:01:23","slug":"un-refugee-agency-displacement-forced-safety-afghan-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/20\/un-refugee-agency-displacement-forced-safety-afghan-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Refugee Agency Says Displacement Is Not a Choice, but a Forced Search for Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has said that the displacement of refugees is not the result of a personal choice, but rather that they were forced to leave their homes and possessions in search of safety.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X on Thursday, 29 Asad, the agency said refugees have made a difficult decision to reach a safe place and have given up their lives and homes.<\/p>\n<p>The agency&#8217;s emphasis on empathy for refugees comes as thousands of Afghan refugees in various countries, especially neighboring states, are struggling with residency problems and economic pressure.<\/p>\n<p>The UN High Commissioner for Refugees is one of the main United Nations bodies involved in supporting refugees, displaced people and internally displaced persons around the world, and it regularly reports on the situation of these groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN refugee agency says displacement is forced by the search for safety, as Afghan refugees face residency and economic pressures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}