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Refugee numbers surging: UN

GLOBAL DISPLACEMENT:Climate change, a growing population and political factors are forcing people to leave their homes, while the UN struggles to help

AP, UNITED NATIONS

However, Guterres said his agency has increasingly assisted IDPs and tried to help the 12 million stateless people.

He said an international debate has started on how to deal with the growing number of people forced to move, because of issues such as climate change and population growth, who have no legal protection.

“Global displacement is an inherently international problem,” Guterres said. “And as such needs international solutions — and by this I mainly mean political solutions.”

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