Iraqi asylum seeker numbers jump
Posted by walker on March 18th, 2008
Iraqis were the largest group among asylum seekers to the world’s industrialised countries for the second year running, according to a UN report.
More than 45,000 Iraqis applied for asylum in 2007, up from 22,900 in 2006, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said.
But they make up only 1% of some 4.5 million Iraqis uprooted by war.
