Looking forward: addressing new challenges and consolidating gains 2011, para. 60

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Paragraph text: This mandate has been specifically tasked with addressing situations of internal displacement caused by natural disasters. It is an issue which the mandate has already done significant work on, most notably, in the form of the revised Operational Guidelines on the Protection of Persons in Situations of Natural Disasters, which have recently been adopted by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (A/HRC/16/43/Add.5) and a thematic report on the protection of internally displaced persons in situations of natural disasters submitted to the Human Rights Council in 2009 (A/HRC/10/13/Add.1). At least 36 million people were displaced by sudden-onset natural disasters in 2008, including over 20 million displaced by climate-related, sudden-onset disasters, according to a report by OCHA and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. This does not include slow-onset disasters such as drought and sea-level rise, which will also trigger important displacements. By contrast, 4.6 million people were newly internally displaced during that year by conflict and violence. As a further aspect of its work on internal displacement, this mandate will seek to address more specifically the human rights implications and dimensions of climate-induced internal displacement.

Organismo: Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons

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Reference: SR Internally Displaced Persons, Report to the HRC (2011), A/HRC/16/43, para. 60.