The number of refugees and internally displaced people in the world reached “unprecedented” levels in 2014, the United Nations said Thursday. In its annual report on global trends and forcibly displaced people, the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, outlined a slew of stark numbers, including the fact that 50 percent of the world’s refugees are children and only 126,800 people could return to their home countries in 2014, the lowest number since 1983.
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Source: Newsweek
