Asian LEADER 13
1 Jan - 14 Jan 2014
Pakistan still hosts largest number of refugees
T
he United Nations refugee
agency warned last Friday
that 2013 could become a record
year for the highest levels of forced
displacement ever seen, owing to
unusually large numbers of new
refugees and internally displaced
people .
The first half of 2013 is described
as “one of the worst periods for
forced displacement in decades,”
by the Mid-year Trends 2013 report
produced by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Some 5.9 million peo