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December 8, 2015

U.N. Asks for $20B to Respond to Mass Forced Displacement 
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The United Nations has asked for $20 billion to respond to greatest mass
displacement of people since World War II. It's the largest appeal to
address forced displacement that the United Nations has ever launched.
U.N. officials cited the wars in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and South Sudan as
one of the major reasons there are nearly 60 million people forcibly
displaced worldwide. U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees António
Guterres warns that at the present level of funding, the agency is "not
able to provide even the very minimum in core protection and lifesaving
assistance."

 

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