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An estimated 1.4 million refugees needed to be resettled last year but only 4 percent found new homes. (Photo: © UNHCR/Louise Donovan)

Record number of people fleeing violence, says UN

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.

Although the figure is for this year,

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

An estimated 1.4 million refugees needed to be resettled last year but only 4 percent found new homes. (Photo: © UNHCR/Louise Donovan)

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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