António Guterres speaks about UNCHR Global Trends Report
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres of Portugal looks on as he arrives for a press conference to present the UNCHR annual statistic Global Trends Report at the foreign press association in Rome on June 20, 2011.
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Afghan refugee in Pakistan
Young Afghan refugee ragpickers hold garbage bags as they walk along a street in Karachi on June 20, 2011. Pakistan is host to the largest refugee population of 1.9 million. The United Nations sought to debunk what it called 'worrying misperceptions' about movements of displaced people saying that developing countries hosted 80 percent of the world's refugees. The United Nations' (UN) World Refugee Day is observed on June 20 each year.
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Bangladeshi refugees flee libya
Bangladeshi refugees who fled Libya demonstrate to ask for their departure at the Tunisian refugee camp of Choucha in Ras Jdir on March 18, 2011. In his speech in Rome on June 20, 2011, UNHCR Chairman Antonio Guterres noted that of the approximately 1 million who have fled civil war in Libya this year, only two percent have arrived safely in Europe.
- [Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images]
Syrian refugees on Turkish border
Syrian refugees rest at the Turkish Red Crescent's second camp in the Yayladagi district of Hatay, two kilometers from the Syrian border, on June 19, 2011. Turkey has begun extending aid across its border with Syria to help people who have massed there fleeing unrest, the emergency situations agency said on June 19.
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Syrian refugee camp on Turkish border
A Syrian flag fies from atop a tent as Syrian refugee children play on a playground set up between tents in the Boynuyogun Turkish Red Crescent refugee camp in the Altinozu district of Hatay, near the Syrian border, on June 20, 2011. According to the UNHCR report released on Monday, June 20, more than a quarter of the world's refugees live in just three nations: Pakistan, Iran and Syria.
- [Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images]
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