13 December 2013
Geneva: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has appealed for greater global support to assist the almost 30 million people around the world who are forcibly displaced in their own countries. Opening an annual discussion on protection challenges, António Guterres warned that internal displacement was on the rise, with a 50 per cent increase in numbers over the past 15 years and amid indications that 2013 could break new records with millions more people having becoming internally displaced in Syria and elsewhere.