{"id":3658,"date":"2014-06-22T08:25:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T12:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3658"},"modified":"2014-06-22T08:25:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T12:25:18","slug":"there-are-now-more-displaced-people-than-any-time-since-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2014\/06\/there-are-now-more-displaced-people-than-any-time-since-wwii\/","title":{"rendered":"There Are Now More Displaced People Than Any Time Since WWII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/world\/2014\/06\/21\/3451340\/refugees-displaced-record\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/AP90439035744-638x425.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.N. Refugee Agency reported Friday that the number of refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced people worldwide has exceeded 50 million for the first time since World War II. \u201cWe are seeing here the immense costs of not ending wars, of failing to resolve or prevent conflict,\u201d said UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ant\u00f3nio Guterres. \u201cPeace is today dangerously in deficit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the agency\u2019s Global Trends report, 51.2 million people were displaced at the end of last year by conflicts ranging from Syria to South Sudan, adding 6 million to the previous year\u2019s count. Here are three developments from the past week that are contributing to the recent surge in refugees:<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/world\/2014\/06\/21\/3451340\/refugees-displaced-record\/\">There Are Now More Displaced People Than Any Time Since WWII | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.N. Refugee Agency reported Friday that the number of refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced people worldwide has exceeded 50 million for the first time since World War II. \u201cWe are seeing here the immense costs of not ending wars, of failing to resolve or prevent conflict,\u201d said UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ant\u00f3nio Guterres&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,18],"tags":[1735,335,396],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3666,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions\/3666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}