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Worldwide, 1 in 110 people is displaced from home: Here's what life is like for some of them

BALUKHALI REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh - Rising quietly before dawn inside his mud-walled shack, the fisherman said a quick prayer and set off into the woods to forage for firewood.

In a hut up the hill, a 12-year-old orphan lay on the dirt floor, his mind racked by memories of his parents.

In southern Bangladesh, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled government attacks in Myanmar last year are crammed into the world's largest refugee camp, unsure when or if they will be able to return to their homeland.

In this dreary limbo, they are far from alone.

At the end of 2017, war, violence, persecution and human rights violations had

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