VOA慢速英語(yǔ)：數(shù)百萬(wàn)人因?yàn)楸┝妥匀粸?zāi)害流離失所

Millions Displaced by Violence, Disasters

數(shù)百萬(wàn)人因?yàn)楸┝妥匀粸?zāi)害流離失所

More than 30 million people were displaced within their own countries last year.

去年有超過(guò)3千萬(wàn)人在本國(guó)內(nèi)流離失所。

That number comes from a new report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and the Norwegian Refugee Council.

這一數(shù)字出自于國(guó)內(nèi)流離失所監(jiān)測(cè)中心和挪威難民理事會(huì)的一份最新報(bào)告。

The two groups blame criminal violence and natural disasters for driving millions of people from their homes.

這兩家組織指責(zé)暴力犯罪和自然災(zāi)害造成數(shù)百萬(wàn)人離開(kāi)家園。

The report also found that nearly 7 million people were newly displaced in 2016.

該報(bào)告還發(fā)現(xiàn)，2016年有近7百萬(wàn)人是新增的流離失所者。

Jan Egeland is the Director-General of the Norwegian Refugee Council.

揚(yáng)·埃格蘭(Jan Egeland)是挪威難民理事會(huì)的總干事。

"When a family is pushed out of their home, sometimes for years, it is a sign something is wrong in a nation, the locality, but also in international relations," Egeland said.

埃格蘭表示，“當(dāng)一個(gè)家庭被迫離開(kāi)家園，有時(shí)候這一去就是多年，這是一個(gè)國(guó)家當(dāng)?shù)爻霈F(xiàn)問(wèn)題的標(biāo)志，但是也是國(guó)際關(guān)系中出現(xiàn)問(wèn)題的標(biāo)志。

The country with the most newly internally displaced persons in 2016 was the Democratic Republic of Congo, or DRC. More than 922,000 people were driven from their homes because of conflict.

2016年新出現(xiàn)國(guó)內(nèi)流離失所者最多的國(guó)家是剛果民主共和國(guó)，該國(guó)有超過(guò)92.2萬(wàn)人因?yàn)楸┝_突被迫離開(kāi)家園。

The report found that the DRC had more newly displaced people than Syria and Iraq. Syria was second with 824,000 while Iraq was third with 659,000 displaced persons.

該報(bào)告發(fā)現(xiàn)，剛果民主共和國(guó)比敘利亞和伊拉克新出現(xiàn)的流離失所者還多。敘利亞以82.4萬(wàn)人流離失所排名第二，伊拉克以65.9萬(wàn)人流離失所排名第三。

Egeland said three provinces in the DRC -- North and South Kivu and Kasai -- are where most of the displacements took place.

埃格蘭表示，剛果民主共和國(guó)的北基伍省、南基伍省和開(kāi)賽省這三個(gè)省份是發(fā)生最多流離失所的地方。

Afghanistan, Nigeria and Yemen all had nearly half a million or more internally displaced persons.

阿富汗、尼日利亞和也門(mén)也都有近五十萬(wàn)或更多的國(guó)內(nèi)流離失所者。

Internal displacement is a more common problem than refugees driven from their country, Egeland said.

埃格蘭表示，國(guó)內(nèi)流離失所比被迫離開(kāi)自己國(guó)家的難民更為常見(jiàn)。

"Internally displaced people now outnumber refugees by two to one," he said.

他說(shuō)，“國(guó)內(nèi)流離失所的人數(shù)已經(jīng)超出難民人數(shù)，其比例超過(guò)了二比一。”

Alexandra Bilak is the director of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center. She says displacement can be only the start for some people.

亞歷山德拉·比拉克(Alexandra Bilak)是國(guó)內(nèi)流離失所監(jiān)測(cè)中心主任。她說(shuō)流離失所對(duì)一些人來(lái)說(shuō)只是開(kāi)始。

"We need to acknowledge that without the right kind of support and protection, a person internally displace today may become a refugee, an asylum seeker or an international migrant tomorrow," she said.

她說(shuō)：“我們必須承認(rèn)，如果沒(méi)有適當(dāng)?shù)闹С趾捅Ｗo(hù)，今天在國(guó)內(nèi)流離失所的人們，明天就可能成為難民、尋求庇護(hù)者或國(guó)際移民。”

One major cause for displacement is criminal violence, the report said. That is the case in some places in Central America. In El Salvador, for example, drug-related violence caused 200,000 people to leave their homes in 2016.

該報(bào)告表示，流離失所的一個(gè)主要原因就是暴力犯罪，在中美洲的一些地方就是如此。例如2016年在薩爾瓦多，與毒品相關(guān)的暴力就造成了20萬(wàn)人離開(kāi)家園。

The other major cause is natural disasters, such as floods, storms, drought, and wildfires. In 2016, three times more people were displaced by such disasters than in 2015.

另一項(xiàng)主要原因就是自然災(zāi)害，例如洪水、風(fēng)暴、干旱和野火。2016年因?yàn)檫@類(lèi)災(zāi)害流離失所的人數(shù)是2015年的三倍多。

Researchers worry that the number of people displaced by weather events will continue to rise because of extreme weather linked to climate change.

研究人員擔(dān)心，由于氣候變化導(dǎo)致的極端天氣，天氣原因?qū)е铝麟x失所的人數(shù)還會(huì)繼續(xù)上升。

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center has called for more information about the internally displaced and more money to deal with the problem. The United Nations has called for cutting the number of the internally displaced in half by 2030.

國(guó)內(nèi)流離失所監(jiān)測(cè)中心呼吁提供更多關(guān)于國(guó)內(nèi)流離失所者的信息，并提供更多資金來(lái)處理這個(gè)問(wèn)題。聯(lián)合國(guó)已經(jīng)呼吁在2030年前將流離失所者人數(shù)減少一半。

I'm Mario Ritter.

馬里奧·里特報(bào)道。

More than 30 million people were displaced within their own countries last year.

That number comes from a new report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and the Norwegian Refugee Council.

The two groups blame criminal violence and natural disasters for driving millions of people from their homes.

The report also found that nearly 7 million people were newly displaced in 2016.

Jan Egeland is the Director-General of the Norwegian Refugee Council.

“When a family is pushed out of their home, sometimes for years, it is a sign something is wrong in a nation, the locality, but also in international relations,” Egeland said.

The country with the most newly internally displaced persons in 2016 was the Democratic Republic of Congo, or DRC. More than 922,000 people were driven from their homes because of conflict.

The report found that the DRC had more newly displaced people than Syria and Iraq. Syria was second with 824,000 while Iraq was third with 659,000 displaced persons.

Egeland said three provinces in the DRC -- North and South Kivu and Kasai -- are where most of the displacements took place.

Afghanistan, Nigeria and Yemen all had nearly half a million or more internally displaced persons.

Internal displacement is a more common problem than refugees driven from their country, Egeland said.

“Internally displaced people now outnumber refugees by two to one,” he said.

Alexandra Bilak is the director of the International Displacement Monitoring Center. She says displacement can be only the start for some people.

“We need to acknowledge that without the right kind of support and protection, a person internally displace today may become a refugee, an asylum seeker or an international migrant tomorrow,” she said.

One major cause for displacement is criminal violence, the report said. That is the case in some places in Central America. In El Salvador, for example, drug-related violence caused 200,000 people to leave their homes in 2016.

The other major cause is natural disasters, such as floods, storms, drought, and wildfires. In 2016, three times more people were displaced by such disasters than in 2015.

Researchers worry that the number of people displaced by weather events will continue to rise because of extreme weather linked to climate change.

The International Displacement Monitoring Center has called for more information about the internally displaced and more money to deal with the problem. The United Nations has called for cutting the number of the internally displaced in half by 2030.

I’m Mario Ritter.

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Words in This Story

Displaced –adj. having been forced to leave one’s home

Drought –n. a severe lack of rain for a long period of time