Rome – Over 43 million people in the world are forcibly displaced by conflict, persecution and natural disasters. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported it in preparation of the World Refugee Day, which will be celebrated on Sunday next.
The U.N. agency remarked that the number of uprooted and displaced people is the highest since mid ’90, while the count of spontaneously repatriated refugees is the lowest in the past two decades, approx. 250,000. .