With twice as many violent conflicts being waged than 10 years ago, including Russia's invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said nations must work together to promote peace. Read more here: Refugees
Persecution, conflict, violence, and human rights violations are among the reasons people can become forcibly displaced.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has, in part, caused this number to surpass 100 million, the UNHCR said in the release of its Global Trends report on Thursday. The “incredibly dramatic speed” in which the Russia-Ukraine conflict has escalated into “possibly the world’s biggest displacement crisis” was a clear example of this, he added.
In Myanmar, the military takeover in February last year ignited widespread violence and forced more than 400,000 to flee."The danger with statistics like these, [is] that they are so large that they can drive a sense of helplessness. 'What can we do in this environment?'