Start of Rainy Season Floods Bor, South Sudan
Flooding in the town of Bor at the start of the rainy season destroyed the homes of over 2000 Internally Displaced Per-
sons (IDPs) in the Protection of Civilians site located on the base of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UN-
MISS) and affected many others in the town.
14 May 2018 / UN Photo/Nektarios Markogiannis
The ease of movement afforded by our increasingly globalized
and connected world means that large numbers of refugees can
travel great distance and create an expanding burden on States
far removed from their own homeland, thus impacting the glob-
al community. The Western consciousness is well aware of these
immigrants and refugees through news reports and political
repercussions, such as Brexit. Adding to the refugee crisis is the
large increase in people who are classified as Internally Dis-
placed Persons (IDPs). IDPs are migrating/moving in response
to conflict, violence, and hate, and have not managed to cross an
international border. Thus, while IDPs are not classified as refu-
gees yet, they are likely to cross borders if possible in the future,
further adding to the humanitarian crisis.
Today, as a result of IDPs from, e.g. ISIS-controlled areas or the
Syrian Civil War, the Mediterranean basin is seeing steadily in-
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