11 Nov 05
United Nations University
Amid predictions that by 2010 the world will need to cope with as many as 50 million people escaping the effects of creeping environmental deterioration, United Nations University experts say the international community urgently needs to define, recognize and extend support to this new category of ‘refugee’.
Full text: www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-11/unu-ro100405.php
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