AS RISING seas swallow coasts, floods wash away livelihood and droughts parch once-fertile lands, the image of the climate-displaced person has become an emblem of the unfolding climate crisis. These stark environmental shifts are no longer distant projections but daily realities for millions across the globe. The world, especially countries in the Global North, has...
The number of people forcibly displaced from their homes worldwide has dropped slightly from a record high but remains 鈥榰ntenably high鈥�, the United Nations said Thursday.
Wars and attacks on civilians are expected to drive 6.7 million people from their homes worldwide over the next two years, humanitarian organisation the Danish Refugee Council said on Friday.
Children made up nearly 40 per cent of the more than 3.4 million people in Myanmar displaced by civil war and climate change-driven extreme weather, the UN agency for children said Thursday...
The UN humanitarian coordinator for Gaza said on Tuesday that 1.9 million people 鈥� 80 per cent of the territory鈥檚 population 鈥� were now displaced, adding she was 鈥榙eeply concerned鈥� by reports of new evacuation orders for Khan Yunis...