Rohingya refugees on a makeshift raft crossing the Naf River from Myanmar into Bangladesh in 2017. Today, their lives in refugee settlements there have come under threat as armed groups and criminal gangs become more brazen. — ©2024 The New York Times Company
THIS month, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, published its flagship Global Trends Report, which has not brought any immediate hope to the world.
The report published on June 12 in Geneva found that forced displacement rose to 120 million in May 2024, marking the 12th consecutive annual increase – a result of ongoing crises and newly emerging and evolving conflicts. The figure would make the global displaced population equivalent to the 12th largest country in the world, around the size of Japan. One in every 69 people, or 1.5% of the entire world’s population, are now forcibly displaced.
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