World Refugee Day is “a day to honour the courage and resilience of millions of people around the globe forced to flee war, violence and persecution. But it is also an opportunity to sound the alarm on their behalf”, declared the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, on Friday 20 June.
“Record numbers of men, women and children – over 122 million people worldwide – have been uprooted from their homes [while] the abject failure to end conflicts – from...