United Nations: Unprecedented Global Refugee Crisis Reached 60 Million In 2014

BBC: Number displaced worldwide hits record high - UN report

The number of people displaced by war, conflict or persecution reached a record high of nearly 60 million around the world in 2014, a UN report says.

The document by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, says the number of people forced to flee their homes rose by 8.3 million from the previous year.

The continuing conflict in Syria is seen as a major factor behind the record numbers.

UNHCR head Antonio Guterres told the BBC the "world is a mess".

WNU Editor: This crisis has already hit me home .... my parent's country home outside of Moscow is now a temporary home to my aunt's daughter and her family who left the Ukraine city of Kharkiv a few months ago.

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