WUNRN
Internal Displacement Monitoring
Centre
2012 - GLOBAL OVERVIEW OF PEOPLE
DISPLACED BY CONFLICT & VIOLENCE - IDP WOMEN & GIRLS
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Report:
29 April 2013 - The total number of people internally displaced by armed conflict, generalised violence and human rights violations worldwide as of the end of 2012 was estimated to be 28.8 million. This represents an increase of 2.4 million on the previous year, and is the highest figure IDMC has ever recorded. Around 6.5 million people were newly displaced, almost twice as many as the 3.5 million during 2011.
The increase was the result of new large-scale population movements in several countries in Africa and the Middle East. The conflicts in Syria and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were responsible for around half of the new displacements, with 2.4 million and one million respectively, while an estimated 500,000 people fled their homes in both Sudan and India.
The higher figures for both overall and new displacement are consistent with the rise in the number of violent conflicts around the world. Reports suggest that there were more highly violent conflicts in Africa in 2012 than at any time since 1945.