Angelina Jolie Pitt: Refugee system breaking down
Number of forcibly displaced worldwide: 59.5 million
BBC News World On The Move is a day of coverage dedicated to migration, and the effect it is having on our world.
A range of speakers, including the UNHCR's special envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt, and former British secret intelligence chief Sir Richard Dearlove, will set out the most important new ideas shaping our thinking on economic development, security and humanitarian assistance.
You can follow the discussion and reaction to it, with live online coverage on the BBC News website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-36289420
Watch this excerpt from Angelina Jolie Pitt's speech:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36303688
.......... and see this graphic:
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Click on this link: UN Refugee Agency to find out the true scale of the worldwide problem.
Number of forcibly displaced worldwide: 59.5 million
Isolationism does not provide an answer
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