Millions Are Refugees Within Own Country.

• Position: INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT

Conflict, violence, and disasters caused 31,100,000 internal displacements last year, according to a report released by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and the Norwegian Refugee Council. "One person every second was forced to flee their home inside their own country. Internally displaced people now outnumber refugees by two to one. It is urgent to put internal displacement back on the global agenda?' says Jan Egeland, secretary general of the NRC.

Of the 6,900,000 internal displacements caused by conflict, 2,600,000 took place in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Democratic Republic of the Congo was the country worst affected, with a spike of 922,000 displacements. Next were Syria (824,000), Iraq (659,000), Afghanistan (653,000), Nigeria (501,000), and Yemen (478,000). Some 40,300,000 people were displaced within their own country as a result of conflict and violence, some of whom having been displaced for decades.

"Certain countries drop off the international agenda only to reemerge a few years later with significant numbers of new displacements," says Alexandra Bilak, director of IDMC. 'This was the case for the Democratic Republic of...