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Approximately This year 76 million people have become internally displaced worldwide, mainly due to “wars, natural disasters and criminal violence,” UN Special Adviser on Internal Displacement Robert Andrew Piper said this Wednesday.

Internal offsetThey make up the vast majority of the 120 million displaced people on the planet. but they are relatively invisible, despite their numbers,” Piper said at a press conference at UN headquarters in New York.

And he lamented: “They didn’t cross the international border. There is no specific agency, treaty or global pact for internally displaced persons. “There is no international day that highlights them, and their numbers have doubled in the last ten years.”

However, the UN Special Adviser in this area assured that “progress” is being made in solving this problem, as “the governments of the affected countries, from Chad to Nigeria or the Philippines, have taken a step forward.”

Moreover, he praised the leaders of Iraq, the Central African Republic, Colombia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Libya, Mozambique and Somalia for their “collective obligation”since the UN General Secretariat launched a concrete action plan in mid-2022 to address the 11.5 million internally displaced people.

However, Piper’s work to find solutions to internal displacement flows in the past year has not focused “on places like Burma or Gaza” because it relies on humanitarian offices and agencies within the UN system for coordination.

In the long term, he also stressed that the most significant achievement was the introduction of an indicator that measures how the problem progresses within structures World Bank and African Development Bank.

Piper concluded by calling on the international community to advocate for “greater respect for humanitarian lawto improve disaster prevention and avoid armed conflict” as the best tool to prevent large flows of internal displacement.

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At the press conference, the Special Adviser was accompanied by the representative of the UN General Secretariat, Stephane Dujarric, who took the opportunity to emphasize that “Children and the most vulnerable people are the main victims» due to wars and the climate emergency, which may subsequently lead to internal displacement.

EFE