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World Refugee Day Global forced displacement tops 50 million for first time in post-World War II era

An Eritrean asylum seeker looks through a gap of a temporary shelter on the sidewalk in Sanaa Yemen June 20 Since April 29 over 200 Eritrean asylum seekers including women and children living on the streets of Sanaa wait to be resettled to a third country For the first time since the World War II era the number of people forced from their homes worldwide has surged past 50 million the United Nations refugee agency said Friday (Hani MohammedAssociated Press)

Afghan migrant Rahman Jan Safi 24 (L) greets asylum-seeker receiving a haircut at their shelter at the harbour in Calais northern France May 4 Safi fled his home country Afghanistan in 2007 and started his long journey through Pakistan Iran Turkey Greece and Italy before finally arriving in France and making his way to Calais Safi gained a French residency permit and now works for an association known as the Auberge des Migrants The organization helps feed and clothe migrants who are in Calais and who for the most part hope to make it across the Channel to England (Christian HartmannReuters)

A young mother holds her child in her IDP (Internaly Displaced Persons) shelter in the UNMISS camp on June 20 in Juba South Sudan The UNMISS will be closing the IDP site and relocating them to a new site in Jebel Area due to the congestion at the current site in Tomping (CHARLES LOMODONGAFPGetty Images)

A woman carries blankets and carpets on her head on June 11 at the Zam Zam refugee camp in North Darfur Sudan Thousands of people have fled Sudanese villages in the wake of armed militia attacksAlbert Gonzalez FarranUNAMIDAP

An Afghan refugee woman carries her child at a special medical camp organized by UNHCR with the co-ordination of Pakistan Medical Dental Association to mark World Refugees Day in Islamabad on June 20 The UNHCR said there were 512 million forcibly displaced people at the end of 2013 a full six million higher than the previous year (FAROOQ NAEEMAFPGetty Images)

Alain Diabanza 35 teaches French to a student in Malaga Spain on May 29 Diabanza was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo which was ravaged by a brutal conflict from 1998-2003 He went to Angola Senegal and then Morocco from where he swam to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta Now he lives in Malaga where he works as a French teacher and is in a relationship with a social worker named Paula They are expecting a baby (Juan MedinaReuters)

Roqya 8 sits in her bed March 10 at the Fayda camp Roqya and her family fled Homs Syria after her father never returned from getting food one morningJerome DelayAP

People fleeing the military offensive against the Pakistani militants in North Waziristan travel atop a vehicle with their belongings while entering Bannu located in Pakistans Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province June 20 (Ihsan KhattakReuters)

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Afghan migrant Rahman Jan Safi 24 stands on the beach front in Calais northern France May 4 Safi fled his home country Afghanistan in 2007 and started his long journey through Pakistan Iran Turkey Greece and Italy before finally arriving in France and making his way to Calais Safi gained a French residency permit and now works for an association known as the Auberge des Migrants (Christian HartmannReuters)

Shahd 2 walks in a field on March 9 near the Fayda camp She and her mother fled Homs Syria when she was only a year oldJerome DelayAP

Michael Telleria poses for a photograph with his girlfriend Ana Maria Ipanaque at his home in the Cuban neighbourhood on the outskirts of Lima in Villa El Salvador May 30 Michael Telleria left Cuba with his parents when he was six years old Hoping to escape the government of Fidel Castro they were among some 10000 Cubans who descended on the Peruvian embassy in Havana in 1980 seeking asylum Tellerias family hoped to reach the United States but they didnt make it further than Peru Telleria now lives in Lima and makes a living selling candies on the bus (Mariana BazoReuters)

A Syrian refugee student waits in her classroom for the arrival of World Bank President Jim Yong Kim at a Lebanese public school in the Burj Hammoud area east Beirut Lebanon June 3 (Hussein MallaAssociated Press)

Sinnuyar Baekons twin babies sleep inside her hut at a refugee camp outside Sittwe the capital city of Rakhine state June 9 Baekon is among many Rohingya Muslims living in squalid camps in Myanmar after being displaced by religious unrest Baekon is from Rakhine state where her family home was burned down in religious riots that broke out in June 2012 (Soe ZeyaReuters)

African refugees live at a temporary shelter beside a road on World Refugee Day in Sanaa Yemen June 20 The number of African refugees who have come to Yemen during the past few years has reached 750000 most of them are Somalis (YAHYA ARHABEPA)

Zarina 6 poses at a camp for internally displaced Afghans on Friday near Kabul Afghanistan The UN refugee agency said Friday that more than 50 million people worldwide had been forced from their homes by the end of 2013 the highest refugee count since World War IIRahmat GulAP

Iraqi children carry water to their tent at a temporary displacement camp set up next to a Kurdish checkpoint on June 13 in Kalak Iraq Thousands of people have fled Iraqs second city of Mosul after it was overrun by ISAS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) militants (Dan KitwoodGetty Images)

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Syrian children who are living at the Al Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan fight as they perform an interpretation of Shakespearean plays Hamlet and King Lear during the Shakespeare in Zaatari event at the Roman Amphitheatre in Amman May 30 The play aims to deliver a message of peace to the world and to draw attention to the situation of Syrian refugees in refugee camps Organizers hope that it will also provide psychological support for the children through the use of social drama (Muhammad HamedReuters)

eshmerga military direct traffic at a Kurdish Check point on June 14 in Kalak Iraq Thousands of people have fled Iraqs second city of Mosul after it was overrun by ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) militants Many have been temporarily housed at various IDP (internally displaced persons) camps around the region including the area close to Erbil as they hope to enter the safety of the nearby Kurdish region (Dan KitwoodGetty Images)

A woman washes clothing at a refugee camp Friday near Kabul Afghanistan The plight of millions of refugees everywhere is marked on World Refugee DayRahmat GulAP

Refugees who fled the military offensive against the Pakistani militants in North Waziristan sit on a bed they used to sleep rough overnight in Bannu located in Pakistans Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province June 19 (Zahid MohammadReuters)

Iraqis who have fled the violence in their hometown of Mosul arrive at Khazir refugee camp Monday near Erbil Iraq It is estimated that more than 1 million Iraqis have been displaced this yearAP

Yammama 11 walks through the Fayda camp on March 9 Her mother four brothers and sister fled Syria with her after bombs exploded near their houseJerome DelayAP

Afghan refugees go through IRIS scan as they leave for Afghanistan at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) registration center on the eve of the World Refugee Day in Chamkani on the outskirts of Peshawar Pakistan June 19 Under a UNHCR voluntary repatriation program started in March 2002 millions of Afghans have gone back home but there are more than 17 million still residing in Pakistan a majority of whom have lived in this neighboring country for decades (ARSHAD ARBABEPA)

A Palestinian boys uses a basketball to play soccer in the West Bank refugee camp of Jalazoun on June 13 (Muhammed MuheisenAssociated Press)

Fahda 6 hangs on to her mother on March 10 in the Fayda camp After two mortars landed on her house in Syria she reportedly was terrified of loud noisesJerome DelayAP

Syrian refugees gather in the Fayda camp on March 10 near Beirut Refugees were in the camp after fleeing the war in SyriaJerome DelayAP

An Afghan refugee girl yawns as she sits with others to have a medical check-up at a health clinic set up by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on June 20 (Faisal MahmoodReuters)

Palestinian children are seen near their house at the al-Shati refugee camp on Wednesday near Gaza City The camp is the third-largest refugee camp in the Palestinian territoriesHatem MoussaAP

A Syrian refugee child carries water in the Fayda camp on March 10 near BeirutJerome DelayAP

Refugee children from the Shan refugee community in Myanmar rehearse before the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) event ahead of the upcoming World Refugee Day in Kuala Lumpur on June 18 (MOHD RASFANAFPGetty Images)

A Syrian refugee woman hangs laundry on Thursday at a refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese town of Majdal AnjarBilal HusseinAP

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