Millions of people forced to flee need the same chance that protection gave me. Today, more than 120 million people around the world have been forced from their homes by conflict, violence and persecution. That is why the Refugee Convention remains so important today. Seventy-five years ago, the world made a promise that people forced to flee would not be abandoned. Seventy-five years later, the Refugee Convention remains one of the clearest expressions of that promise.