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According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre’s latest report on internal displacement in 2014, in South and South-East Asia, 1.5 million people were newly displaced. Nearly all new displacement occurred in Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and the Philippines. IDMC reports that counter-insurgency operations in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas resulted in approximately 907,000 people fleeing their homes in North Waziristan and Khyber agencies. This was a sharp increase from the 140,000 displaced in 2013. Pakistan accounted for 46 per cent of South Asia’s displaced population. The IDMC report states that at least 345,000 people were newly displaced in India past year, which is five times as many as in 2013. Non-State Armed Groups (NSAG) violence targeting Adivasis in western Assam was responsible for a major part of this displacement, accounting for 300,000 people forced to flee their homes in December. Other causes of internal displacement in India were inter-communal violence in western Assam in May, along Assam’s border with Nagaland in August and by cross-border skirmishes between India and Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir in October and December. Major drivers of internal displacement IDMC suggests that the consistent rise in the number of internally displaced persons over the last decade, is indicative of various shifts in the very nature of conflict. Far from being stabilized, inequality in fact is rising, creating disparities in wealth, education and other crucial aspects of human development. Because of the rise of inequalities, regional disparities have increased, and areas isolated from political and economic capitals are at higher risk. IDMC also emphasized that conflict in one country can have regional implications, creating a “domino effect” on its neighbours. Protracted displacement IDMC emphasizes that protracted displacement was a major issue. Nearly 90 per cent of the countries surveyed were home to IDPS who had been living in displacement for ten years or more Nearly 90 per cent of the countries and territories we monitored in 2014 are home to people who have been living in displacement for ten years or more Lack of state intervention Despite it being the state’s responsibility to protect and assist its IDPs, it was mainly humanitarian agencies and NGOs that responded to the plight of IDPs; in more than a third of cases, not even international or regional humanitarian agencies were actively involved in trying to resolve the situation. The report documents that across the world, 11 million people were newly displaced by violent events in 2014 alone.
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IDP, forced migration, internal displacement, India, Pakistan, South Asia, conflict, Assam, NSAG, IDMC
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