GENEVA (AN) — Wars and conflicts displaced a record 70.8 million people worldwide in 2018, up 3% from a year earlier, the U.N. refugee agency reported on Wednesday.
The number of refugees, internally displaced people and asylum-seekers — larger than the populations of Britain, France or Thailand — rose by 2.3 million from 2017, when 68.5 million were displaced.
Migrants and Refugees — Dominican Republic — Eritrea — Ethiopia — France — Global Compact for Safe Orderly and Regular Migration 2018 — Global Compact on Refugees 2018 — Global Issues — Hungary — Libya — New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants 2016 — Norway — Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) — Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) — Syria — Thailand — United Kingdom — U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) — United Nations — Venezuela — United States
