WUNRN

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Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

Norwegian Refugee Council

DISPLACEMENT DUE TO NATURAL HAZARD-INDUCED DISASTERS - GENDER

Direct Link to Full 30-Page Report:

http://www.internal-displacement.org/8025708F004BE3B1/(httpInfoFiles)/15D7ACEC7ED1836EC12578A7002B9B8A/$file/IDMC_natural-disasters_2009-2010.pdf

Millions of women, men, and children around the world are displaced from their homes each year by sudden-onset disasters caused by natural hazard events. This study finds that 17 million people were newly displaced by sudden-onset disasters worldwide in 2009, and over 42 million people in 2010. Global data from the last few decades shows that the number of natural hazard-induced disasters and the number of people affected by them, are on the rise.