Montreal, Canada – Last May, the United Nations unveiled a “sobering” milestone that it said “should never have been set”: For the first time in recorded history, more than 100 million people around the globe had been forced to flee their homes due to conflict, violence and persecution.
Today, as the world grapples with the effects of this displacement, experts have cautioned that an equally alarming trend is also picking up pace: the “erosion” of the right to seek asylum in other countries.
