A recent report by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) highlighted the displacement of more than 50 lakh people in India due to climate change and other natural disasters. This report has been quoted in the annual Global Trends Commission of 2022.
The report produced by the UNHCR also highlights the plight of 10 crore people across the globe who are bound to evacuate their homes last year due to food insecurity, natural disasters, violence, human right abuses and war between Russia-Ukraine.
Another report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Cell closely explains several internal displacements across the globe, majorly due to natural disasters – a rough count of 2.37 crores. The following figure is devoid of those internally displaced as a result of conflict and violence. It is important to note that there however has been a decline in numbers of those affected due to wars – around 70 lakhs – in comparison to previous year’s figures.
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As per the data included in the reports, China had faced the largest displacement scale in 2021 due to natural disasters (60 lakhs), followed by Philippines with 57 lakhs and then India with 49 lakhs people under threat. However, a UN report stated that most displacements were temporary as conditions soon retrieved back to normal.
The report also examined how several internally displaced populations returned back to their homes, but, around 59 lakh people across the globe still remained displaced by the end of 2021, majorly due to natural disasters.
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) additionally highlighted how the number displaced people were forced to leave their household over the past decades. Their data states that by the end of last year, people displaced due to war and violence is registered at nearly 9 crores – indicating a hike of 8% from previous year’s tally.
Putting more emphasis on the early quarter of 2022, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) report staunchly denies keeping a blind eye towards the development taking place in early 2022, including the Russia-Ukraine war.
Reiterating the same, the report stated, “Since then, the Russian invasion of Ukraine – causing the fastest and one of the largest forced displacement crises since World War II – and other emergencies, from Africa to Afghanistan and beyond, pushed the figure over the dramatic milestone of 100 million.”
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An overall data offered by the same report also states that by the end of last year, almost 89.3 million people were displaced forcibly around the globe – out of that, 27.1 million refugees, 5,8 million Palestine refugees under United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East’s (UNRWA) mandate, 53.2 million displaced people internally within their countries, 4.4 million displaced Venezuelans, and 4.6 million asylum seekers.
