Global Report on Internal Displacement 2024

Source: Down to Earth
GS III: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment

Overview

1. About the Report
2. India and South Asia in the report
3. 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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