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Global Report on Internal Displacement 2021
May 24 , 2021
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- Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID 2021) is released by Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
- According to the report, there were 40.5 million new internal displacements in 2020.
- This is the highest annual figure for 10 years.
- These were triggered globally by disasters and violence.
- 9.8 million displacements were due to conflict and violence.
- Weather-related events accounted for almost all of the 30.7 million disaster-led displacements last year.
- Storms and floods caused the majority of displacements.
- Cyclone Amphan, which made landfall in Eastern India and Bangladesh in May 2020, triggered around five million displacements across Bangladesh, India, Bhutan and Myanmar.
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