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The UNHCR has warned this figure could rise further due to global political changes.

, on Thursday, released a report saying the number of people forcibly displaced towards the end of 2023 stood at a record 117.3 million.

In its report on Global Trends in Displacement, UNHCR said there had been a yearly increase in the number of people forcibly displaced over the last twelve years. “These are refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced people, people being forced by conflict, by persecution, by different and increasingly complex forms of violence,” said UNHCR head Filippo Grandi.

 

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