2014 was a year of records for asylum claims, according to an annual round-up released today by UNHCR, which noted that 866,000 claims were made in the world's industrialized nations, double the figure for 2013.
That figure will undoubtedly grab headlines, but the report reveals many other important trends. IRIN has highlighted a few of them:
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