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World’s displaced hits record high of 60m: UN


Almost 60 million people worldwide were forcibly uprooted by conflict and persecution at the end of last year, the highest ever recorded number, the UN refugee agency said on Thursday.
More than half the displaced were children from crises-hit countries including Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in its annual Global Trends Report.
In 2014, an average of 42,500 people became refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced every day, representing a four-fold increase in just four years, the aid agency said.
“We are witnessing a paradigm change, an unchecked slide into an era in which the …read more

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