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Number of people on the run worldwide increases

By Tom Paulson on 19 June 2013 0

As the NY Times reports:

The United Nations refugee agency said Tuesday that an estimated 7.6 million people around the globe were displaced because of conflict or persecution in 2012, including 1.1 million refugees and 6.5 million people who were displaced within their own countries.

Thomson Reuters puts it visually:

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