The United Nationals High Commissioner on Refugees’s (UNHCR) Mid-Year Trends 2015 report, published recently, shows that the current year is on track to have record breaking rates of forced displacement.

The report details displacement rates from conflict and persecution during the first 6 months of 2015. As of the mid-point of 2015 the number of displaced refugees reached over 20 million individuals. These reports indicate that the number could reach over 60 million by the end of 2015. The number of refugees has not been this high since 1992. The reports further indicate that only very low numbers of refugees have the opportunity to return home safely. Germany has received the most refugees in the first half of 2015. The High Commissioner said “Never has there been a greater need for tolerance, compassion and solidarity with people who have lost everything.”