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Front cover: Crossing the border. Refugees and
migrants make their way to the border between Serbia
and Hungary in the hopes of continuing their journey
onwards. While Europe’s struggle to manage more than
one million refugees and migrants who arrived via the
Mediterranean dominated the media in 2015, the vast
majority of the world’s displaced remain in low-and
middle-income countries close to situations of conflict.
© Hollandse Hoogte / Warren Richardson
Back cover: Lesvos, Greece. October, 2015. Moments
after their boat landed in Lesvos, an Afghan woman with
her baby, sits in shock by the beach.
© UNHCR / Giles Duley
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