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Nearly Three Million More Displaced Year-on-year, Warns Refugee Agency Chief, But Solutions are Within Reach

Fillipo Grandi
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi addressing representatives of Latin America and the Caribbean at a regional meeting on migration in Brasilia, Brazil, on 19 February 2018. (Arthur Max/FM. Ministério das Relações Exteriores)
GENEVA—(ENEWSPF)—June 19, 2018
By: United Nations Communications

The number of people forced to flee their homes last year rose by nearly three million to 68.5 million, the head of the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday, warning that the world’s displacement…

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