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Yes, refugees deserve basic human rights

Last week’s World Refugee Day was an opportunity to remind ourselves that 85 per cent of the world’s 68 million people fleeing violence and indignity are in Kenya and other developing countries.

31 people were displaced every day of last year. By December, there were three million new refugees. For them, every day is refugee day.

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