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Geneva Refugee Summit Grapples With Issues of Equity

Jamie Dettmer

   They keep on coming -- fleeing the killing fields of war-torn countries
   in the Middle East and Africa, escaping the random violence of vicious
   drug gangs in Central America, and running from repressive regimes in
   Asia.

   A world in crisis means more refugees, and the trend lines are not
   promising.

   There are now more than 70 million refugees and displaced people around
   the world -- nearly 26 million outside the borders of their own
   countries, according to the U.N. High Commission for Refugees.

   Speaking ahead of the UNHCR's first Global Refugee Forum, which
   formally started Monday in Geneva, U.N. officials say they expect those
   numbers will climb when they have concluded the final troubling tally
   for 2019.

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