This year’s 25th anniversary of the Guiding Principles and IDMC’s founding. This report includes selected examples of comprehensive policies and legal frameworks introduced to address internal displacement over the past two and half decades. It also highlights promising initiatives designed to prevent displacement, protect IDPs, support them in achieving durable solutions and improve the availability and quality of data on the issue.

Our fourth interdisciplinary conference on internal displacement will mark the 25th anniversary of IDMC and the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement. It will examine how 25 years of progress can inform action today to overcome the remaining barriers to solutions to internal displacement.

In this update, we highlight ten of the most notable situations from the first six months of the year, from major earthquakes and storms to the devastating impacts of conflict and violence.

IDMC's 2023 Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) is the world’s most trusted source of data and analysis on the risk, scale and impacts of internal displacement. The 2023 report will be its eighth edition and will focus on food insecurity as a driver, impact and potential barrier to solutions for internal displacement.