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UNHCR: Global Forced Displacement Crisis Must be Addressed and Resolved

Lisa Schlein

   GENEVA - The U.N. high commissioner for refugees is calling for urgent
   action to resolve the global forced displacement crisis as increasing
   numbers of people flee conflict, natural disasters and grinding
   poverty. Filippo Grandi was speaking at the opening of UNHCR's annual
   weeklong refugee conference.

   Forced displacement has reached record highs. In recent years, nearly
   71 million people have been uprooted from their homes. More than
   one-third are refugees; the rest are displaced within their own
   countries.

   U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi says the issue of
   forced displacement is far more complex now than in 1951. That was when
   the United Nations adopted the Refugee Convention to protect and assist
   millions of refugees who survived the horrors of World War II.
   

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