In Reuters today. it says: "Worlds displaced hits record high of 60 million. half of them children." Of the 60 million people who are displaced. half of them are children. They are the ones who always suffer the most. The article says: ... at the end of last year. the highest ever recorded number. the U.N. refugee agency said on Thursday. More than half the displaced from crises including Syria. Afghanistan and Somalia were children. UNHCR said in its Annual Global Trends Report. In 2014. an average of 42.500 people became refugees. asylum seekers. or internally displaced every day. representing a fourfold increase in just four years. In 4 years. there was a fourfold increase in the number of refugees. Again. that is not an accident. "We are witnessing a paradigm change. an unchecked slide into an era in which the scale of global forced displacement as well as the response required is now clearly dwarfing anything seen before." said U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres in a statement. UNHCR said Syria. where conflict has raged since 2011. was the worlds biggest source of internally displaced people and refugees. There were 7.6 million displaced people in Syria by the end of last year and almost 4 million Syrian refugees. mainly living in the neighboring countries of Lebanon. Jordan and Turkey. For the information of my colleagues. there are now more Syrian children in school in Lebanon than there are Lebanese children in school in Lebanon.
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