122 million forcibly displaced from homes worldwide: UN
The number of people forcibly displaced from their homes worldwide has dropped slightly from a record high but remains ‘untenably high’, the United Nations said Thursday.
The number of people forcibly displaced from their homes worldwide has dropped slightly from a record high but remains ‘untenably high’, the United Nations said Thursday.
Wars and attacks on civilians are expected to drive 6.7 million people from their homes worldwide over the next two years, humanitarian organisation the Danish Refugee Council said on Friday.
Officials of the Credit Information Bureau at Bangladesh Bank have been denied access to the CIB database for over a year and a half, allegedly to conceal borrowers’ default loan statuses.
Human Rights Watch said in a report released Thursday that Israel’s repeated evacuation orders in Gaza amount to the ‘war crime of forcible transfer’, and to ‘ethnic cleansing’ in parts of the Palestinian territory...