We hear stories every day of refugees trying to enter Europe, but now a new report reveals the scale of the problem of people fleeing violence and murder in their own countries.
The number of people displaced within their own countries was the worst in a generation last year, but there is little sign of governments taking action to deal with the problem, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council.
"Every single day last year 30,000 men, women and children were forced out of their homes because of conflict and violence," the agency's Secretary General Jan Egeland said.
The total number of displaced people in their own countries reached a record 38 million. This figure does not include those who fled abroad. Mr Egeland said, however, that many of today’s displaced people become tomorrow’s refugees.
Six out of every 10 people displaced in 2014 were in just five countries: Iraq, South Sudan, Syria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria.
Syria was now "the number one displacement country of this generation", with 7.6 million internally displaced and 4 million refugees, but stopping the problem was possible, Egeland said.
"It's as difficult and as simple to say United States, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey: you have to sit down and send one signal into this conflict: stop it. You have to get your side to go to the negotiating table, and not just talk about the other side."
