Global Report on Internal Displacement 2024
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GS III: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment
Overview
- About the Report
- India and South Asia in the report
- How to reduce the number?
Why in the News?
Global Report on Internal Displacement 2024 (GRID-2024) released the report on internally displaced people.
About the Report
- Global Report on Internal Displacement 2024 (GRID-2024) released by the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
- In 2023, the number of internally displaced people increased to 75.9 million, from 71.1 million in the preceding year.
- Internal displacement: The number of forced movements of people within the borders of their country recorded during (a) year.
- Reason for Internal Displacement
- The GRID records internal displacements due to conflict violence and disasters.
- In 2018 a trend of disasters particularly weather-related ones was the reason.
- The highest figure since data became available due to conflict.
- Sudan, Syria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Colombia and Yemen host nearly half of the world’s internally displaced people.
- Israel Palestine forced millions of people to flee in 2023.
- Disaster-induced internal displacement population was 7.7 million by the end of 2023
- Displacement due to weather-related disasters came down by a third in 2023.
- One-fourth of it was caused by earthquakes.
- With significant events across six continents.
- High-income countries, such as Canada and New Zealand, reported their highest figures ever.
- Storms and floods led to fewer displacements across most of Asia.
- South Asia reported 3.7 million internal displacements, of which disasters caused 3.6 million.
India and South Asia in the report
- India reporting its lowest displacement in recent years.
- Internal displacements (movements): India had almost 67,000 displaced by conflict and 528,000 displaced by disaster issues.
- Internally displaced people (IDPs): 613,000 due to conflict and 90,000 due to disaster.
- Displacement due to Disaster
- The Indian subcontinent, cyclone Biparjoy formed in the Arabian Sea in early June causing evacuation of western India and three storms, causing widespread flooding across Guja – rat and Rajasthan and triggering 105,000 displacements as it moved inland.
- Over 100,000 Hit by Floods in 20 Districts of Assam, 22 June 2023
- Displacement due to Violence
- The vast majority were the result of an increase in communal violence in India’s north-eastern state of Manipur.
How to reduce the number?
- Facilitating the return, local integration, or resettlement of displaced individuals and addressing their vulnerabilities is crucial.
- To prevent new and repeated displacement and resolve ongoing crises, governments must enhance conflict resolution, peacebuilding, disaster risk reduction, poverty alleviation, and climate action efforts.
- Enhanced data collection to inform prevention and response strategies, as well as to monitor progress towards solutions, will significantly increase the effectiveness of these interventions.
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