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Conflict and persecution caused global forced displacement to escalate sharply in 2015, reaching the highest level ever recorded and representing immense human suffering, according to a report released on 20 June by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

An-OSCE supported conference attended by some 100 participants from 20 countries on international co-operation in countering terrorist and extremist organizations through the use of modern communication technologies concluded on 18 June in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan.

In Greece, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon meets with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on 18 June, 2016.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, on 16 June launched a major campaign that asks the world to stand together #WithRefugees. In a stunning video message more than 60 global celebrities join with refugees and aid workers to echo the message, “we stand with refugees, please stand with us.” The petition appeals for government action on behalf of the world’s forcibly displaced.

A Taliban uncle threatened to use Sufyan, 15, in a suicide attack. He escaped to Europe and has been in Calais for 8 or 9 months, trying to cross into England.

A Congolese refugee at an emergency school in Obo, Haut-Mbomou, Central African Republic, (CAR) after fleeing attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).

UNHCR High Profile Supporter Theo James meets refugees in Greece

A child wanders in the refugee camp of Assaga, near Diffa, Niger. More than 135 displacement sites have been noted along the border with Nigeria, where there has been increased acts of violence conducted by Boko Haram.

African leaders are not doing enough to stop conflicts in Africa, said two-thirds of the nearly 86,000 youth surveyed in a recent mobile-based poll conducted in nine African countries.