It is being reported that a record 38 million people around the world are displaced inside their own countries due to conflicts and violence. So far Iraq has been hit the hardest with 2.2 million people forced to flee inside the country in 2014.
The Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC) has released a report titled “Global Overview 2015”. The report states that one third of the internally displaced persons (IDPs)—11 million people—were forced from their homes last year alone, with an average of 30,000 people fleeing every day. The total number of IDPs across the globe in 2014 increased by 14 percent compared to the year before.
“These are the worst figures for forced displacement in a generation, signaling our complete failure to protect innocent civilians,” said Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, which oversees the IDMC. “This report should be a tremendous wake-up call,” Egeland added. “We must break this trend where millions of men, women and children are becoming trapped in conflict zones around the world.”
According to the data, 60 percent of the newly displaced people last year were from just five countries—Iraq, South Sudan, Syria, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Ukraine is also facing hardship as it made the IDMC’s report for the first time with 646,500 people internally displaced in 2014.
Between Syria and Iraq, 14 million people are displaced:
– 14 million people are now displaced from the crisis in both Syria and Iraq
– 40% of the displaced from Syria are under 12 years old
– Syria’s 4 year civil war has left 220,000 people dead
The United Nations Security Council (7433th meeting) has recently discussed the humanitarian situation in Syria. Reports state the council has adopted a presidential statement expressing alarm and calling the refugee crisis in Syria “the largest humanitarian emergency crisis in the world today.”
António Guterres, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, stated to the council:
“One thing is clear: the situation in the region has become utterly unsustainable.”
Joining Guterres were his agency’s celebrity global emissary, Angelina Jolie Pitt; departing emergency relief coordinator, Valerie Amos; and Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura.
Ms. Jolie Pitt has been a representative of U.N. causes for 13 years now. In her statement to the council she said:
“We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world’s inability to protect and defend the innocent.”
Jolie explained that many Syrian refugees have lost all hope, and she invited the Council members to visit the refugee camps to “see firsthand their suffering and the impact it is having on the region.”
The United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) reported that the increasingly interlinked crisis gripping Iraq has forced more than 2.8 million children from their homes, often trapping them in areas controlled by armed groups.
“For the youngest children, this crisis is all they have ever known. For adolescents entering their formative years, violence and suffering have not only scarred their past; they are shaping their futures,” said UNICEF Executive Director, Anthony Lake.
This photo was taken on April 5, 2015. It shows an internally displaced Iraqi girl at a camp for internally displaced people in the northern city of Sammara. (AFP/Mohammed Sawaf)
The chaos in that region is the result of half a century of U.S. military intervention, as well as covert operations in the Middle East. Not to mention, as those at the Pontiac Tribune point out, the funding of terrorist groups like ISIS.
It’s apparent to many that the U.S.’s foreign policy has the world headed towards a major military conflict (WWIII), and there are many who now believe it’s time for the people to take the power back—without asking permission.
Sources:
Albawaba News. May 6, 2015. (http://www.albawaba.com/news/report-world-record-38-million-people-internally-displaced-iraq-hardest-hit-691194)
Geren, Tony. The Pontiac Tribune. Apr 27, 2015. (http://pontiactribune.com/displacement-syria-iraq-hits-14-million/)
Press TV. May 6, 2015. (http://presstv.com/Detail/2015/05/06/409709/IDMC-internally-displaced-violence)
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