Search
'Horrific' Increase in Worldwide Displacement, including due to climate change
- Tharanga Yakupitiyage
- May 25, 2017
- 1 min read
United Nations — Over 30 million people were newly internally displaced in 2016 by conflict and disasters, according to a new report.
In examining trends around the world for its annual Global Report on Internal Displacement, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) found "horrific" and high levels of new displacement.
"Since we started this conversation, hundreds of families have been or are in the process of being displaced today," said Secretary-General of NRC and former Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Jan Egeland during a press briefing.
Rex Pe