UN brands record 110 million displaced people an 'indictment' of the state of the world

South Sudanese who fled from Sudan sit outside a nutrition clinic at a transit center in Renk, South Sudan Tuesday, May 16, 2023. The UNHCR has reported that almost 2 million people have been displaced in the country since April © AP/Sam Mednick

The United Nations has announced that a record 110 million people worldwide have been forcibly displaced from their homes, branding the massive upsurge an "indictment" of the world.

According to the UNHCR – the UN refugee agency – Russia's war in Ukraine, refugees fleeing Afghanistan and the fighting in Sudan have pushed the total number of refugees forced to seek shelter abroad, and those displaced within their own countries, to an unprecedented level.