{"id":23415,"date":"2024-05-16T12:26:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T06:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23415"},"modified":"2025-04-07T02:22:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T20:52:33","slug":"global-report-on-internal-displacement-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/global-report-on-internal-displacement-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Global Report on Internal Displacement 2024:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>annual report<\/strong> published by the <strong>Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li>It records internal displacements<strong> due to conflict and violence and disasters.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Highlights of GRID-2024:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>In 2023<\/strong>, the number of <strong>internally displaced people<\/strong> (IDP) <strong>increased to75.9 million,<\/strong> from 71.1 million in the preceding year.<\/li>\n<li>Report says <strong>7.7 million<\/strong> displaced <strong>by disasters<\/strong> (one-fourth of it was caused by earthquakes) and <strong>68.3 million by conflict and violence<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sudan, Syria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo<\/strong> (DRC), <strong>Colombia,<\/strong> and <strong>Yemenhost<\/strong> nearly <strong>half of the world\u2019s IDPs<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>At <strong>9.1 million, Sudan<\/strong> has the <strong>highest number<\/strong> of IDPs recorded for a single country.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Most of the new displacement<\/strong> this year happened in<strong> Sudan<\/strong>, the <strong>Palestinian territories<\/strong>, and the <strong>Democratic Republic of Congo<\/strong>, accounting for almost <strong>two-thirds of <\/strong>all <strong>new displacement.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>South Asia:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The IDMC said around <strong>5.3 million<\/strong> people were living <strong>in internal displacement<\/strong> as a <strong>result of conflict and violenceacross South Asia<\/strong> at the end of 2023, <strong>80 percent<\/strong> of whom were <strong>in Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Conflict and violencetriggered69,000 displacements<\/strong> in <strong>South Asia in 2023, <\/strong>with <strong>Manipur violencealone<\/strong> accounting <strong>for 67,000.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>highest number<\/strong> of displacements <strong>triggered by conflict<\/strong> and violence <strong>in India since 2018.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>There is a <strong>sharp decline in IDP in 2023<\/strong> from 2.5 million internal displacements <strong>due to natural disasters in India<\/strong> in 2022. Internal displacements by natural disasters <strong>in 2023 was 528,000.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Facts about Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>leading source<\/strong> of information and analysis <strong>on internal displacement.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>IDMC defines internal displacement as \u201cthe number of forced movements of people within the borders of their country recorded during (a) year.<\/li>\n<li>IDMC was <strong>set up in 1998<\/strong> at the <strong>request of the international community<\/strong> to fill an important knowledge gap on the global scale and patterns of internal displacement.<\/li>\n<li>IDMC is <strong>part of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC),<\/strong> an <strong>independent, non-governmental humanitarian organisation<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>IDMC plays a unique role as a global monitor and evidence-based <strong>advocate to influence policy and action by governments, UN agencies<\/strong>, donors, international organisations and NGOs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>IDMC\u2019s GRID<\/strong> is the <strong>official repository of data<\/strong> and analysis on <strong>internal displacement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)?<\/h3>\n<p>The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent, humanitarian, non-profit, non- governmental organisation which provides assistance, protection and durable solutions to refugees and internally displaced persons worldwide. NRC strives to reduce the number of people affected by displacement, and advocates for the rights of those who are forcibly displaced, internally displaced or seeking asylum. Their humanitarian aid includes basic needs provision such as food, sanitation and shelter, as well as protection services such as legal aid and education on human rights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/climate-change\/weather-related-disasters-continue-to-displace-more-than-conflict-and-violence-96147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Weather-related disasters continue to displace more than conflict and violence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Report on Internal Displacement 2024 is an annual report published by the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}