The United Nations says the number of people displaced by conflict and persecution has reached nearly 60 million worldwide. The figure includes 14 million newly displaced in 2014. U.N. High Commissioner of Refugees António Guterres said refugee numbers are growing while political solutions are dwindling.

António Guterres: “Unfortunately, one year afterwards, we have to announce that in 2014 we have, at the end, a number of displaced persons by conflict of 59.5 million, what represents an increase of 16 percent in relation to 2013 and an increase of 60 percent in relation to 10 years ago. The world has lost much of its capacity to prevent conflicts and to timely solve them, and the result is the dramatic situation we are presenting today, and dramatic not only because there are more and more refugees and displaced persons, but because there are less and less solutions for them.”