Syrian refugee crisis feared far larger than first thought
ISTANBUL – Syria's humanitarian crisis is rapidly worsening and may be much larger than the United Nations and major governments are describing it, according to diplomats and officials of U.N. organizations.(...)
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Training on protection of internally displaced persons set in Davao
BUTUAN CITY, Oct 23 (PIA) -- The Norwegian Refugee Council-Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (NRC-IDMC) will be spearheading the first training workshop on the protection of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in East Mindanao on October 25 and 26 to be held in Paradise Island Resort, Samal, Davao City.(...)
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KENYA: Pastoralists, too, can be displaced
ralists, who spend much of their lives itinerant, in search of pasture, become displaced? They can, and up to 400,000 pastoralists in northern Kenya are currently internally displaced persons (IDPs), according to a new report.
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Kate Halff interview with Radio France
20 September 2012
Mali : 118,000 personnes déplacées après la prise du Nord
Depuis janvier 2012, environ 393,000 personnes ont été forcées de quitter leurs foyers en raison de l’instabilité et de l’insécurité liées aux affrontements entre les forces gouvernementales et les séparatistes Touaregs, à la prolifération des groupes armés dans le Nord du Mali, à un coup d’État militaire et à une crise alimentaire affectant l’ensemble du Sahel, a affirmé l’IDMC.(...)
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One in 10 are internally displaced in northern Mali
LONDON (AlertNet) - Fighting in northern Mali and a food crisis sweeping across the Sahel region have uprooted some 393,000 Malians, including 118,800 who have been internally displaced, according to a report released on Monday.(...)
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AlJazeera English, 2 October 2012
Live interview with IDMC's head of communication Clare Spurrell on the Syrian displacement crisis.
AlJazeera English, 4 September 2012
Live interview with IDMC's Country Analyst Guillaume Charron on the Syrian displacement crisis.
For your ears only, 26 August 2012
Displaced in Syria
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Le Journal du Dimanche, 26 August 2012
L'incroyable exode intérieur des Syriens
Plus de 4.000 morts rien qu’au mois d’août. L’inflation des chiffres de l’horreur sera mise en avant jeudi au Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU, présidé par Laurent Fabius.
Proportionnellement, c'est comme si près de cinq millions de Français avaient pris la route en laissant tout derrière eux. Depuis le début de la révolution, plus d'un million et demi de Syriens ont fui leur maison pour s'installer ailleurs dans le pays. Un chiffre alarmant rendu public par l'IDMC, l'Observatoire des situations de déplacement interne, basé à Genève. Et encore, ce chiffre (presque 7% de la population totale) serait sous-évalué, comme l'est celui de 200.000 réfugiés dans les pays limitrophes de la Syrie. Pour les déplacés de l'intérieur, "la faim et la déshydratation sont des menaces au même titre que les bombes et les balles", affirme Guillaume Charron, auteur d'un rapport sur le sujet. (...)
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France Culture, 24 August 2012
Displaced in Syria
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all Africa, 9 August 2012
Chad: IDPs Face Homecoming Hurdles
Goz-Beida/N'djamena — Efforts to find "durable solutions" for many of the tens of thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) in eastern Chad by the end of 2012 are being frustrated by poor conditions in IDPs' home villages as well as by heavy rains.
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The government "has set up a Multi-Sector Recovery Programme for Eastern Chad (Programme Global de relance de l'Est du Tchad, PGRET)," explained Sebastian Albuja, who heads the Africa and Americas department of the International Displacement Monitoring Centre an advocacy project of the Norwegian Refugee Council. (...)
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The Australian News, 2 August 2012
Syria's former safe havens are no longer
For 16 months, Syria's two biggest cities Damascus and Aleppo were seen as safe havens from the country's bloodshed, but deadly fighting over the past two weeks is forcing people who took refuge there to flee yet again.
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As of last week, at least 1.5 million people were listed as internally displaced as a result of the conflict, according to Guillaume Charron of the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. (...)
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Terra, 31 Julio 2012
La búsqueda desesperada de un refugio en Siria sumida en la violencia
Durante dieciséis meses, Damasco y Alepo eran refugios en una Siria ensangrentada, pero la violencia que se ha apoderado de estas dos ciudades lanzó a los caminos a miles de refugiados en busca de una imposible protección.
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Decenas de miles de personas se han refugiado en países vecinos como Jordania, Líbano y Turquía. Por otra parte, hay 1,5 millones de desplazados en el interior del país, según Guillaume Charron, del Centro de vigilancia de desplazamientos internos, con sede en Ginebra. (...)
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AFP, 30 July 2012
Syria's former safe havens no longer a refuge
BEIRUT — For 16 months, Syria's two biggest cities Damascus and Aleppo were seen as safe havens from the country's bloodshed, but deadly fighting over the past two weeks is forcing people who took refuge there to flee yet again.
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As of last week, at least 1.5 million people were listed as internally displaced as a result of the conflict, according to Guillaume Charron of the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. (...)
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AFP, 19 April 2012
2011: Conflict uproots 3.5 million people
Conflicts including the uprisings in the Arab world last year forced 3.5 million people to flee within their country, international monitors said on Thursday.
A total of 26.4 million people were internally displaced at the end of 2011, a fall from 27.5 million the previous year, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
But the number of newly displaced people, including 830 000 who fled during the Arab uprisings, rose 20% compared to 2010. (...)
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Associated Press, 19 April 2012
Groups: 230,000 displaced inside Syria by uprising
Some 230,000 Syrians have fled their homes and taken refuge in other parts of the country since the March 2011 start of the uprising against President Bashar Assad, according to a U.N.-backed report.
But unlike the tens of thousands of other Syrians who have crossed into neighboring countries, aid groups cannot reach many of those displaced inside Syria, the head of the U.N. refugee agency said Thursday.
"The U.N. country team has been asking repeatedly for access," the U.N.'s High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, told reporters in Geneva.
A report by the Norwegian Refugees Council and the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Center estimates Syria now has more than 600,000 internally displaced people, one of the highest numbers in the world. (...)
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Bloomberg, 19 April 2012
Syrian Repression Forces Almost 160,000 to Flee, Group Says
President Bashar al-Assad’s crackdown on protesters seeking political change forced 156,000 people to flee their homes last year, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre said.
The conflict is “the most profound social upheaval in Syria since the instability of the 1960s” that subsequently brought the Assad family to power, according to a report today from the Geneva-based organization that has been tracking displacements worldwide since 1998. The estimate includes only those Syrians who have remained within their homeland. (...)
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IRIN, 8 February 2012
Analysis: Yemen election overview
(...) Violence remains widespread across the country and the election is being opposed by Islamist militants, some elements within the Southern Movement, and the Houthis, who were left out of the November deal.
According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), data compiled by the government’s executive unit for internally displaced persons (IDPs) shows that 144,000 people have been displaced in southern and central Yemen since May 2011, and over 80,000 in Abyan Governorate alone. (...)
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