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50% of internally displaced people and refugees were thought to be in urban areas in 2010, many of them in protracted displacement with little likelihood of ever returning home. A 2013 study found that these protracted urban displacements had not been given due weight by international aid and governance as historically they had focused on rural ...
Group of internally displaced persons arrives in Munigi, Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2013 The Kampala Convention (formally, the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa) is a treaty of the African Union (AU) that addresses internal displacement caused by armed conflict, natural disasters and large-scale development projects in ...
Since August 2014, and the expansion of ISIS in Iraq, the number of internally displaced Iraqis has risen from 1.7 to 3 million, peaking at 3.4 million in March 2016 . Persistent insecurity and other factors have prevented many Iraqis from returning to their homes, but people are slowly beginning to return.
A migrant who fled their home because of economic hardship is an economic migrant, and strictly speaking, not a displaced person.; If the displaced person was forced out of their home because of economically driven projects, such as the Three Gorges Dam in China, the situation is referred to as development-induced displacement.
The International Organization for Migration estimates that in the first half of 2023, conflict in the eastern DRC displaced nearly a million additional people, which along with existing displaced population, brought the total number of internally displaced people in the country to an estimated 6.1 million. [2]
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre; Template:Internally displaced persons; Internally displaced persons camps in Borno; Internally displaced persons in Sri Lanka; Internally displaced persons in Syria; Internally displaced persons in Iraq
The payments that Lagos authorities offered for larger demolished structures, for example, were 31 percent lower than what the World Bank’s own consultants said they were worth. “It was like David and Goliath. There were these little people fighting against this giant,” Chapman said. The bank “really left vulnerable people on their own.”
Citizens and permanent residents of Lebanon have fled the nation or have been internally displaced since the escalation of tensions between Israel and Hezbollah beginning in 2023, and especially during and following the September 2024 Lebanon strikes in southern Lebanon and the Beqaa Valley. As of 25 September 2024, nearly 500,000 people were ...