The United Nations has said in a report that in 2021, about 5 million people were internally displaced in India due to climate change and disasters.
The UN Refugee Agency’s (UNHCR) annual Global Trends Report highlights that globally, in the past year, violence, human rights abuses, food insecurity, the climate crisis, war in ukraine and for other emergencies from Africa Afghanistan,
According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC), in 2021, disasters caused 23.7 million new internal displacements globally (these are in addition to those internally displaced due to conflict and violence). This represents a decrease of seven million or 23 percent compared to the previous year, the report said.
“The largest displacements in terms of disasters in 2021 occurred in China (6.0 million), the Philippines (5.7 million) and India (4.9 million). Most of the disaster displacements during the year were temporary,” it said.
The report said most internally displaced people returned to their home regions, but 5.9 million people worldwide were displaced by disasters at the end of the year.
The United Nations agency said the number of people forced to flee their homes has increased every year over the past decade and is at the highest level since records began, a trend that has only been seen as a move toward peacemaking. The reverse can be done with fresh, concerted effort.
The report said that by the end of 2021, the number of people displaced by war, violence, persecution and human rights abuses stood at 89.3 million, an increase of eight percent from a year ago and more than double the figure 10 years ago. is also more.
While the latest Global Trends report shows the period from January 2021 to December 2021, the UN agency said it was impossible to ignore developments in early 2022, including the war against Russia. Ukraine,
“Since then, the Russian invasion of Ukraine – creating the fastest and largest forced displacement crisis since World War II – and other emergencies, from Africa to Afghanistan and beyond, has pushed the figure to the dramatic milestone of 100 million. pushed,” the report said.
The report said that at the end of 2021, 89.3 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide, including 27.1 million refugees, 21.3 million refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) covers 5.8 million Palestine refugees. ) mandates, 53.2 million internally displaced people, 4.6 million asylum seekers and 4.4 million Venezuelans displaced abroad.
Asylum seekers submitted 1.4 million new claims. The United States was the world’s largest recipient of new personal applications (188,900), followed by Germany (148,200), Mexico (132,700), Costa Rica (108,500) and France (90,200).
As of May 2022, more than 100 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide by incidents of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations or serious disturbances to public order.
“Every year of the last decade, the numbers have increased,” said Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. “Either the international community comes together to take action to address this human tragedy, resolve conflicts, and find lasting solutions, or this terrifying trend will continue.”
The last year was notable for the number of conflicts that escalated and new ones that erupted; According to the World Bank, 23 countries with a combined population of 850 million faced conflicts of moderate or high intensity.
The UN agency said that the lack of food, inflation And the climate crisis is adding to the hardships of the people. The number of refugees increased to 27.1 million in 2021. It said arrivals in Uganda, Chad and Sudan have increased.
“Most of the refugees were, once again, hosted by neighboring countries with few resources. The number of asylum seekers increased by 11 percent to reach 4.6 million,” the report said.
Last year also saw a 15th consecutive annual increase in the number of people displaced in their countries due to conflict, to 53.2 million. The increase was driven by increased violence or conflict in some places, for example Myanmar.
The conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigre and other regions has prompted the flight of millions of people within the country. Insurgents in the Sahel carried out fresh internal displacement, particularly in Burkina Faso and Chad.