"The world is witnessing record-high levels of displacement, with the number of internally displaced people surging in 2024 Conflict, climate shocks, and political and economic turmoil are causing more people to flee than ever before.
Nearly every protracted crisis today is also a neglected one. From ongoing conflicts to environmental disasters, crises around the world are met with shrinking budgets, limited media coverage and fading political will. The combined force of these factors is not only amplifying humanitarian needs but also prolonging crises year after year.
Crises are no longer confined within borders. Many of the crises featured here are interconnected, with instability in one country sparking displacement, hunger and insecurity in its neighbours. With resources stretched thin and funding decreasing, tensions between refugees and host communities are growing.
In many cases, the countries bearing the most responsibility for sheltering displaced people receive the least in return. Often grappling with their own challenges, refugee-hosting nations are being left to shoulder rising needs as the international community continues to disengage.
Climate-driven disasters are forcing people to flee and exacerbating hunger across nearly all countries in this report. Extreme weather events, such as droughts, floods and failed harvests, are destroying livelihoods and displacing millions. Combined with inflation and economic shocks, food insecurity has reached alarming levels.
Funding shortfalls are becoming the norm. In today’s changing climate, a response plan that reaches just 50 per cent of its target is considered well-funded. For countries on this list, even that bare minimum remains out of reach. The majority of their response plans scraped by at just over 40 per cent funded or less in 2024. The gap will only widen with global funding cuts, leaving millions more vulnerable.
People are cut off from aid and essential services across many of the contexts in this report, whether because of insecurity, bureaucratic hurdles, or a growing disregard for humanitarian principles among parties to conflicts.
Media silence is being reinforced by restrictions on press freedom and barriers that prevent journalists from reaching those areas where the world’s attention is needed most.
Peace remains the only true solution in areas of conflict and repeated displacement. But without true political will – nationally, regionally and internationally – to pursue inclusive peace processes, the situation will only worsen. Humanitarian diplomacy must be reinvigorated to shift the trajectory." (Conclusions)