Global: UNHCR chief highlights concerns over internally displaced

Wrapping up UNHCR's week-long Executive Committee meeting on 6th October, High Commissioner António Guterres said governments were obviously concerned about the plight of the world's 23 million internally displaced people, preserving the institution of asylum amid global migration flows, and the struggle of millions of refugees returning to post-conflict societies. In a press conference at the conclusion of the annual meeting of his agency's 70-nation governing body, Guterres cited the desperate situation of some 2 million uprooted people in Sudan's Darfur region to illustrate the urgency of addressing the problem of internal displacement.