Six million trapped as long-term refugees – UNHCR


  • World
  • Wednesday, 10 Dec 2008

GENEVA (Reuters) - Some six million people around the globe are trapped in mainly poor countries as long-term refugees, many facing deprivation that feeds crime and human trafficking, a senior United Nations official said on Wednesday.

The world body's High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, said there were at least 30 crisis areas around the world where people had been forced to flee into neighbouring states and had not been able to return home for many years.

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