GENEVA: The number of people displaced by war and persecution around the world climbed above 122 million this year due to a failure to resolve multi-year conflicts such as those in Sudan and Ukraine , the UN refugee agency said on Thursday (Jun 12), noting that funding to help the refugees has fallen to 2015 levels. There were over 2 million more people displaced globally by the end of April 2025 than there were the previous year despite the return of nearly the same number of Syrians after the