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UN calls on world leaders to act, as more than 80 million people displaced in ‘bleak milestone’
Children play in a mud puddle in the section for foreign families at Al-Hol camp in Hasakeh province, Syria
THE number of displaced people across the globe passed 80 million this year, the United Nations said today.
According to UN figures, nearly 30 million of the total are refugees.
The coronavirus pandemic, war, violence and persecution continue to force people to flee from their homes, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) report said.
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