Quelle: The Guardian
Two summits this week will try to address the 65 million displaced and 20 million in danger. But they are under fire before talks have even begun
Tracy McVeigh and Mark Townsend
It is now the greatest movement of the uprooted that the world has ever known. Some 65 million people have been displaced from their homes, 21.3 million of them refugees for whom flight is virtually compulsory – involuntary victims of politics, war or natural catastrophe.
With just less than 1% of the world’s population homeless and seeking a better, safer life, a global crisis is under way, exacerbated by a lack of political cooperation – and several states, including the United Kingdom, are flouting international agreements designed to deal with the crisis.
