The total number of people forcibly displaced by war, conflict and persecution rose to a record 59.5 million at the end of 2014, the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) has said.
The agency’s annual Global Trends Report: World at War released Thursday found forced displacement worldwide has reached unprecedented levels, with a record annual rise of 8.3 million more displaced people since 2013. Some 38.2 million of the total were internally displaced in their own countries.
If the number of displaced persons formed a nation, the report said, it would be the 24th largest country in the world.
Speaking in Turkey on Thursday, the …read more
Source: Time
