UN Study: Displacement Worst Ever Recorded

The U.N. refugee agency says worldwide displacement from wars, conflict and persecution is at the highest level ever recorded. And it’s getting worse. The UNHCR has released its annual Global Trends report, which says nearly 60 million people were forcibly displaced at the end of 2014. The UNHCR describes the level of displacement as a “dangerous new era” that “dwarfs anything seen before.”  Spokesman Babar Baloch said, “It’s really a sad reality of the world that we are...

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