In a world beset by conflicts and natural disasters, the number of people who fled their homes and sought shelter within their own countries hit a record high of close to 60 million by the end of 2021.
A report by the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said disasters – including weather events such as cyclones and floods in Asia as well as protracted conflicts in places like Syria, Afghanistan and Ethiopia – were factors behind new displacements last year.
