Chuck Darwin<p>Upwards of 300 million people are classified by the United Nations as international migrants; one in every eight migrants worldwide is a child.
<br>That’s some 3.6 percent of the global population on the move and chasing hope.
<br>To mark International Migrants Day on December 18, RFE/RL’s language services have come together to focus on the <a href="https://c.im/tags/migrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>migrant</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/refugee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>refugee</span></a> issues most affecting the 23 countries in our broadcast region.
<br>In 2023, that has meant, among other crises, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ukrainians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukrainians</span></a> escaping the ongoing Russian invasion; <br>ethnic <a href="https://c.im/tags/Armenians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Armenians</span></a> fleeing the Azerbaijani takeover of Nagorno-Karabakh; <br>the more than 6 million <a href="https://c.im/tags/Afghans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Afghans</span></a> internally displaced due to violence and natural disasters; <br>the regional fallout from the war in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a>; <br>and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pakistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pakistan</span></a>’s decision to expel by November 1 hundreds of thousands of undocumented Afghans.<br><a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/international-migrants-day-stories-hope-survival-refugees/32706880.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rferl.org/a/international-migr</span><span class="invisible">ants-day-stories-hope-survival-refugees/32706880.html</span></a></p>