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UN report flags nearly 50 lakhs displaced in India due to climate change -Aryan Prakash

-Hindustan Times

According to the report, the largest displacements due to disasters in 2021 took place in China (60 lakhs), the Philippines (57 lakhs) and India (49 lakhs). The UN report said that most disaster displacements were temporary.

Nearly 50 lakh people in India were internally displaced due to climate change and disasters in 2021, news agency PTI quoted the annual Global Trends Report by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).

The UNHCR report states that 10 crore people across the world were forced to flee their homes last year due to violence, food insecurity, human rights abuses, the climate crisis, war in Ukraine etc. 

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Cell said there were 2.37 crores new internal displacements across the world due to disaster. These figures are in addition to those internally displaced due to conflict and violence. However, this is a decrease of 70 lakh as compared to the previous year's tally, the report added.

According to the report, the largest displacements due to disasters in 2021 took place in China (60 lakhs), the Philippines (57 lakhs) and India (49 lakhs). The UN report said that most disaster displacements were temporary. 

A majority of the internally displaced persons returned to their home areas, but 59 lakh people across the world remained displaced at the end of the year due to disasters, the report said, 

The UN agency for refugees said that the number of people forced to leave their homes has increased every year over the past decades and stands at the highest level since the records began. By the end of 2021, those displaced due to war, violence stood at nearly 9 crores, a hike of eight per cent from the previous year's tally and double the figure of ten years ago. 

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