June 18, 2015 Meet the Middle East

Record 60 million fled 'out of control' violence in 2014: UN

That is 8.3 million more refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) in the world than in 2013 -- the highest-ever increase in a single year, the UN refugee agency said in a report titled "World at War"."We are witnessing a paradigm change, an unchecked slide into an era in which the scale of global forced displacement as well as the response required is now clearly dwarfing anything seen before," UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres told reporters ahead of the launch of UNHCR's annual report.
Source: Albawaba
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