200.5 million people were affected by natural disasters or displaced by conflict and violence.
Conflict and violence displaced 30,000 people per day. Over 22,000
migrants died en route to Europe.
77 per cent of Twitter accounts were for users outside the United States. Within the context of UN peace operations, humanitarian action was the costliest activity, surpassing the peacekeeping budget by $2
billion.
The cost of global conflict was estimated at $14.3
trillion.
19.3 million people were displaced by natural disasters; 91 per cent of this displacement was due to weather-related events. Civilians comprised 78 per cent of the almost 145,000 deaths and injuries caused by explosive weapons between 2011 and 2014. Since 2006 85 per cent of CERF funding in Asia-Pacific has been used primarily to fund 5 sectors: food, WASH, health, shelter and logistics. Between 2009 and 2014, the number of IDPs in the Middle East and North Africa region
more than doubled from 6.7 million to 15.6 million.
Women accounted for 55
to 60 per cent of all human trafficking victims.
Only 4 per cent of projects in inter-agency appeals were gender-specific, showing no increase from previous years.
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