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About the Author: Eric Schwartz serves as Assistant Secretary of State forPopulation, Refugees, and Migration.
Today is World Refugee Day, an international commemoration aimed at highlighting the needs of refugees and vulnerable people around the world, as well as to promote sustained commitment to international humanitarian response. And recent events have been a stark reminder that upholding that commitment is as important as ever.
You’ve seen it on the news — displacement and suffering from crises in the Middle East and Africa affecting hundreds of thousands of people. The United States is responding by providing over $80 million in humanitarian assistance for those impacted by the conflict in Libya and over $51 million in humanitarian assistance to refugees, internally displaced people (IDPs), and other conflict-affected populations in more »
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