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What’s in a number? Unpacking the 65 million-forced displacement crisis

According to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency’s latest Global Trends report, the number of people forcibly displaced due to conflict and persecution has increased to 65.6 million by the end of 2016.

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What’s in a number? Unpacking the 65 million-forced displacement crisis

Regia, from Somalia, greets her friends and customers in her shop on the main street in the Nakivale refugee settlement, South West Uganda © Dorte Verner Today on World Refugee Day, we hear once again that the number of people forcibly displaced due to conflict and persecution has increased to 65.6…