This Quarterly Update covers the activities of the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) between 1 July and 30 September 2015. It is also available to be read online or down-loaded at www.internal-displacement.org. IDMC, established by the Norwegian Refugee Council, is the leading non-governmental body monitoring internal displacement worldwide.
Keeping IDP issues high on the international agenda
The Global Estimates 2015 was launched in July 2015 in Geneva. The report reveals the latest global figures for 2014 which show that 17.5 million people were forced to flee their homes last year by weather-related hazards such as floods and storms, and 1.7 million by geophysical hazards such as earthquakes. IDMC’s data captures 695 new disaster displacement events in 2014 that affected 100 countries. IDMC’s global disaster displacement data on events between 2008 to 2014 is accessible for download from our website.