About 30,000 to 35,000 new refugees crossed the border from Sudan's Blue Nile State into South Sudan over a period of three weeks ...(PHOTO ESSAY: Blue Nile State Refugees Trek to Already Crowded South Sudan Camps )

Tunis — "Refugees have no choice. You do," is the theme of the World Refugee Day which has been celebrated on June 20 each year for more than a decade now, to pay tribute to all refugees across the world.

In 2012, the number of uprooted persons across the world stands at 42.5 millions, said the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), published on Monday in Geneva. It is the highest number ever since 2000, the same source adds.

In Tunisia, nearly a year after the end of the conflict in Libya, the Shusha refugee camp counts 2 700 refugees and asylum seekers.

Over 1 500 refugees left the Shusha camp to resettle in various European countries, the United States and Canada. As to the others, waiting is hard to bear.

"We are working in close collaboration with the resettlement countries and the Tunisian government. We truly wish that joining all efforts will help us find lasting solutions for the Shusha refugees or in other countries, as soon as possible," UNHCR representative Ursula Schulze Aboubacar wrote in a press release on the occasion.

UNHCR will stage a new campaign, "Dilemmas," "One Refugee Deprived of Hope is Already too Much," which is a development of the award-winning campaign launched in 2011, to depict some of the tough choices facing refugees.