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Nearly 5 million people in India internally displaced due to climate change
The Week | 17/06/2022 08:41 AM | Click to read full article
Nearly five million people in India were internally displaced due to climate change and disasters in 2021, the United Nations has said in a report.
The annual Global Trends Report by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) highlighted that globally 100 million people were forced to flee their homes last year due to violence, human rights abuses, food insecurity, the climate crisis, war in Ukraine and other emergencies from Africa to Afghanistan.
