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Conference


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

FMR

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

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

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

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

IDP world map 
Latest IDP Map 
Internal displacement in the Central African Republic, IDMC (November 2008)

Interactive photo gallery 
A photo gallery showing villages affected by internal displacement in Senegal's Casamance region.


IDP Voices 
Listen to the Voices of people who have been violently forced from their homes.