Conflict and disaster put them at greater risk amid the global Covid-19 pandemic. FMTNews
Newly-displaced Syrian children arrive at a refugee camp in Idlib in September.
The number of internally displaced people is far higher than the some 26 million who have fled across borders as refugees. The report found that conflict forced 8.5 million IDPs to flee last year in countries like Syria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia and South Sudan. “Collectively, we are failing by epic proportions to protect the world’s most vulnerable,” he lamented, calling for concerted action and insisting that “in this age of coronavirus, continued political violence is utterly senseless.”
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