{"id":55026,"date":"2023-05-11T14:00:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/may\/11\/conflict-and-climate-disasters-combine-to-create-record-rise-in-displaced-people"},"modified":"2023-05-11T14:00:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T05:00:18","slug":"conflict-and-climate-disasters-combine-to-create-record-rise-in-displaced-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55026","title":{"rendered":"Conflict and climate disasters combine to create record rise in displaced people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>War in Ukraine and Pakistan\u2019s \u2018monsoon on steroids\u2019 among events driving  surge on \u2018scale never seen before\u2019 as 71m people displaced<\/p>\n<p>The number of people around the world who were forced to flee their homes leapt by a fifth last year, as a \u201cperfect storm\u201d of Russia\u2019s assault on Ukraine and climate disasters brought displacement on an unprecedented scale.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of 2022 the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) \u2013 those forced from their homes but remaining within their country of residence \u2013 reached 71 million, according to figures published by the Norwegian Refugee Council\u2019s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.internal-displacement.org\/\">IDMC<\/a>), up from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/may\/19\/huge-spike-in-global-conflict-caused-record-number-of-displacements-in-2021\">59.1 million in 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/may\/11\/conflict-and-climate-disasters-combine-to-create-record-rise-in-displaced-people\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War in Ukraine and Pakistan\u2019s \u2018monsoon on steroids\u2019 among events driving  surge on \u2018scale never seen before\u2019 as 71m people displacedThe number of people around the world who were forced to flee their homes leapt by a fifth last year, as a \u201cperfect stor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2266,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,221,59,498,212,640,60,61,404,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-europe","category-global-development","category-internally-displaced-people","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-migration-and-development","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sudan","category-ukraine","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55027,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55026\/revisions\/55027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}