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  2. Forced displacement - Wikipedia

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    Forced displacement (also forced migration or forced relocation) is an involuntary or coerced movement of a person or people away from their home or home region.The UNHCR defines 'forced displacement' as follows: displaced "as a result of persecution, conflict, generalized violence or human rights violations".

  3. Internally displaced person - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Displaced Persons Act - Wikipedia

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    Eligible displaced person - any displaced person or refugee as defined by Annex I of the Constitution of the International Refugee Organization. [5] A displaced person is eligible for admission to the United States given the conditions on or after September 1, 1939 and on or before December 22, 1945. Entered Germany, Austria, or Italy

  5. Refugee - Wikipedia

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    According to the report of the U.S. Committee for Refugees (1995), 10 to 15 percent of 7.5 million Azerbaijani population were refugees or displaced people. [47] Most of them were 228,840 refugee people of Azerbaijan who fled from Armenia in 1988 as a result of deportation policy of Armenia against ethnic Azerbaijanis. [48]

  6. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - Wikipedia

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    In this role she represents the UNHCR and High Commissioner Filipo Grandi at the diplomatic level and works to facilitate long-term solutions for people displaced by large-scale crises, such as Afghanistan and Somalia. "This is an exceptional position reflecting an exceptional role she has played for us", said a UNHCR spokesman.

  7. Child displacement - Wikipedia

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    Child displacement is the complete removal or separation of children from their parents and immediate family or settings in which they have initially been reared.Displaced children includes varying categories of children who experience separation from their families and social settings due to several varied reasons.

  8. How The World Bank Broke Its Promise to Protect the Poor

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    Over the last decade, projects funded by the World Bank have physically or economically displaced an estimated 3.4 million people, forcing them from their homes, taking their land or damaging their livelihoods. The World Bank has regularly failed to live up to its own policies for protecting people harmed by projects it finances.

  9. Refugee crisis - Wikipedia

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    Although they do not fit the definition of refugees set out in the UN Convention, people displaced by the effects of climate change have often been termed "climate refugees" [9] or "climate change refugees". [10] The term 'environmental refugee' is also commonly used and an estimated 25 million people can currently be classified as such. [11]