41 Million People Are Displaced Worldwide Due To Conflict And Violence

Al Jazeera: 10 million displaced internally by conflict in 2018: Report

New figure brings total number of people living as IDPs due to violence and tensions to 41.3 million, an all-time high.

Conflict forced more than 10 million people to flee their homes to live elsewhere within their own country last year, bringing the total number of people internally displaced by violence to a record high, monitors say.

The new figure brings the total number of people currently living in internal displacement due to violence to 41.3 million, an all-time high, according to a report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).
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"It is really a mind-boggling figure," NRC chief Jan Egeland told reporters in Geneva.

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Editor: The report can be downloaded form here .... Global Report on Internal Displacement 2019 (ReliefWeb)

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