Over 100 million people are currently displaced by conflict, a figure that the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has described as dramatic.
A 48-page report out Thursday (16 June) by the agency says it means 1 in every 78 persons has been forced to flee.
"[It is] a dramatic milestone that few would have expected a decade ago," notes the report.
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