World: New UN report confirms historic levels of forced displacement as 118 million forced to flee

Countries: World, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Myanmar, South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic Source: International Rescue Committee Figures reflect some 60 active conflicts worldwide. The slight decline in numbers reflects returns – some, as in Syria, reflecting the end of a war — but in many places, returns forced to countries still mired in conflict and crisis. The solutions are collapsing faster than the numbers, with resettlement at its lowest since 2011, asylum backlog