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TEN YEARS OF GUIDING PRINCIPLES ON INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT
Achievements and Future Challenges
Oslo, 16-17 October 2008

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Forced Migration Review (Issue 31, September 2008), Climate change and displacement

Displaced families living in informal settlements in Iraq, courtesy of NCCI, March 2008.

Country Update Challenges of forced displacement within Iraq 29 December 2008 More than 2.8 million people were estimated to have been internally displaced in Iraq as of November 2008. Approximately 1.6 million were thought to have been displaced by sectarian and generalised violence since the Al Askari mosque bombing of February 2006, and approximately 190,000 more had been displaced by military operations and generalised violence from 2003 to 2005. (...)

Latest Country Profile Updates

• 23 December 2008
  Kenya : No durable solutions for internally displaced yet
  Widespread violence following the December 2007 elections, which were marred by accusations of election irregularities, displaced up to 600,000 people in Kenya. ... more
• 22 December 2008
  India : New and protracted displacement ongoing in absence of formalised response
  In 2007-2008, civilians in various parts of India continued to be displaced by internal armed conflict and separatist, ethnic or communal violence, as well as conflict stemming from the threat of development-induced displacement. ... more

Special Country Reports

• 26 November 2008
  State of Neglect: Displaced Children in the Central African Republic
  Internally displaced children in the Central African Republic face severe protection problems from ongoing insecurity and violence. They have witnessed extreme levels of violence such as the killing of family members when their villages were attacked by road bandits known as Zaraguina or coupeurs de route. ... more

Publications

• The Great Lakes Pact and the Rights of Displaced People: A Guide for Civil Society (September 2008)
  The Guide aims to help organisations use the Great Lakes Pact to promote the rights of refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) in the region.... more
• Internal displacement to urban areas: the Tufts-IDMC profiling study (September 2008)
  IDMC identified the need to develop and test a methodology to assess the number and situation of IDPs in urban centres, to complement the Guidance on Profiling Internally Displaced Persons. (...)... more
• Internal Displacement: Global Overview of Trends and Developments in 2007 (April 2008)
  Yearly report on major global and regional developments in the field of internal displacement.... more