‘A record that never should have been set’

One hundred million people have now been forcibly displaced worldwide due to conflicts and crises. Refugees from Ukraine make up just 6.4 million of the tally. David Miliband, the head of the International Rescue Committee and a former UK foreign secretary, puts the sobering new statistic into perspective for The World’s host Marco Werman.

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