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2008 Global Trends: Refugees, Asylum-seekers, Returnees, Internally Displaced and Stateless Persons
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2009 Executive Committee MeetingThe combined impact of the economic downturn with the global trends of climate change, urbanization, increased population and food insecurity on human displacement were on the agenda of the annual meeting of UNHCR's governing Executive Committee.
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