These future migrants will swell the ranks of the 155 million people already displaced by conflict, disaster and large-scale development projects. The vast majority will be from the world’s poorest countries. Urgent action by the world community is needed if the worst effects of this crisis are to be averted, says the report, Human tide: the real migration crisis.
Published to mark Christian Aid Week 2007, the report warns that the world is now facing its largest ever movement of people forced to flee their homes. The predicted numbers of displaced people could dwarf even those left as refugees at the end of the Second World War.
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