Migrants wash themselves from a sink installed in a street of Paris on October 11, 2017.
Unprecedented waves of migration are affecting the world today with record numbers of people escaping war-torn regions, poverty, persecution and natural disasters. That influx of people is just a fraction of the record 65.6 million people who were either refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced around the world by the end of 2016, according to the UN refugee agency. / AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULTCHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT (AFP)Migrant worker Wang Jun carries scrap material she collected from debris of demolished buildings at the outskirts of Beijing, China October 1, 2017. Picture taken October 1, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas PeterTHOMAS PETER (REUTERS)Migrant worker Wang Qin and her 10-year-old granddaughter Feng Aobin sit in their one-room home at the outskirts of Beijing, China October 1, 2017. Picture taken October 1, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas PeterTHOMAS PETER (REUTERS)Migrants pack up their belongings and a tent, as they prepare to leave after sleeping on the floor in Saint-Denis outside Paris on October 11, 2017.
Unprecedented waves of migration are affecting the world today with record numbers of people escaping war-torn regions, poverty, persecution and natural disasters. That influx of people is just a fraction of the record 65.6 million people who were either refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced around the world by the end of 2016, according to the UN refugee agency. / AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULTCHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT (AFP)A woman washes the dishes outside her flooded house after the passage of tropical storm Nate in Rivas some 80 kilometres from Managua on October 6, 2017.
Intense rains from the storm forced thousands from their homes, uprooted trees, knocked out bridges and turned roads into rivers in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras. / AFP PHOTO / INTI OCONINTI OCON (AFP)
