Global Trends Report: Forced Displacement in 2024

Current Context : The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees released its Global Trends Report: Forced Displacement in 2024, showing a record 123.2 million people forcibly displaced worldwide.

ABOUT FORCED DISPLACEMENT

• Definition: People compelled to flee homes due to persecution, conflict, violence, human‑rights violations or disasters.
• Numbers at End‑2024:
  • 2 million forcibly displaced globally.
  • 40 percent are children.
  • Top nationalities: Sudanese, Syrian, Afghan, Ukrainian (together > 33 percent).
• Internally Displaced Persons:
  • 5 million remained within their own countries.
• Key Challenges:
  • Food insecurity from disrupted livelihoods and camp logistics.
  • Public‑expenditure shocks burdening host governments.
  • Social tensions over scarce resources.
  • Unemployment for informal, low‑skilled, young and female workers in host areas.
• Major Initiatives:
  • Global Compact for Migration (2018): Non‑binding framework for safe, orderly migration.
  • Global Program on Forced Displacement (2009) by the World Bank: Supports development responses to displacement.
• About United Nations High Commissioner (UNHCR)
  • Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Established: 1950 by United Nations General Assembly.
  • Mandate: Protect rights and ensure well‑being of refugees and displaced persons.
  • Awards: Nobel Peace Prize in 1954 and 1981.