International Rescue Committee Issues Statement on Number of Refugees, Displaced People Around World
June 19, 2019
June 19, 2019
NEW YORK, June 19 -- The International Rescue Committee issued the following statement by President and CEO David Miliband in response to the record number of 70.8 million refugees and displaced people around the world:
"Today's record-setting figures are a wake-up call to the human cost of war, economic misery and climate stress -- representing a clear international failure to tackle the defining political and humanitarian crisis of our time. As the numbers of displaced grow, . . .
"Today's record-setting figures are a wake-up call to the human cost of war, economic misery and climate stress -- representing a clear international failure to tackle the defining political and humanitarian crisis of our time. As the numbers of displaced grow, . . .