United Nations — Displacement has increased to unprecedented levels due to war and persecution, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has found.
In a new report, entitled Global Trends which tracks forced displacement globally, UNHCR found that 65.3 million were displaced at the end of 2015, compared to 59 million just 12 months earlier. This is the first time in the organisation's history that the threshold of 60 million has been crossed.
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