In 2015 and the first six months of 2016 we watched many war situations get worse and become chronic. So much so that there are 35 wars and 17 crisis situations currently in progress. Those war scenarios, besides death and destruction, cause a much greater number of people to flee the longer and fiercer the conflict becomes; or the longer situations of insecurity, violence and violation of human rights last. Other reasons for fleeing are economic inequality, inequality over access to food (for lack of a fair distribution in global production) and water, the so-called land grabbing phenomenon, which takes productive land away from poorer countries, and instability created by terrorist attacks.

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