Six things you didn’t know about refugees on World Refugee Day

Today is World Refugee Day, and aid agency GOAL have released six facts that you probably do not know about refugees.

Six things you didn’t know about refugees on World Refugee Day
Mon, 20 Jun, 2016 - 12:08

Today is World Refugee Day, and aid agency GOAL have released six facts that you probably do not know about refugees.

It comes as the UN refugee agency released a report saying that the number of refugees and internally displaced people worldwide stood at 65.3 million at the end of last year.

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