People displaced in Rakhine State, western Burma in December 2012. War, violence and persecution drove worldwide forced displacement to another new high in 2018. UNHCR’s annual Global Trends Report – released on 19 June 2019 – shows that nearly 70.8 million people were displaced at the end of 2018. Some 13.6 people were newly displaced during the course of the year.

First published in the October 02, 2019, 8:32 p.m. edition

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