An estimated 26 million people uprooted by conflict or human rights violations remained in their own countries in 2008, far more than the 16 million who crossed borders and became refugees under U.N. protection in 2007, according to a report Friday by the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Center.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, predicted an increase in the number of displaced people as a result of the global financial crisis. He said it will have an impact in the competition for resources between the displaced and their host communities.
by the associated press
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