Keyword: Internally displaced persons
Africa: Talking about forced displacement
The displaced in Bulo Hawo, near the Kenyan border
KAMPALA, 22 October 2009 (IRIN) - Civil society and government officials are gathered in the Ugandan capital of Kampala to discuss the Convention on the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Africa
and a declaration on refugees, returnees and IDPs.
Yemen: Selling food aid to pay the rent
IDPs in Sanaa rush to register their names with aid agencies so that they can receive assistance (Adel Yahya/IRIN
Some of the thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) who have fled fighting
in Saada Governorate, northern Yemen, are selling food aid in the capital, Sanaa, to pay their rent, say an aid worker and some IDPs.
IRAQ: Karbala IDPs, squatters encouraged to return
Insufficient funds and an overburdened public services infrastructure have prompted authorities in Iraq’s central province of Karbala to assist the voluntary return of up 90,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) and 100,000 squatters.
Land reform must not shut out Côte d’Ivoire’s IDPs - report
Village of Yapleu, Moyen Cavally, in the western area of Côte d’Ivoire (Barbara McCallin/IDMC, July 2008)
A reform programme designed to formalise customary land rights in Côte d’Ivoire may compromise durable solutions for internally displaced persons (IDPs) if their specific needs are not taken into account, according to a new report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).
IRAQ: Squatters moved out of nearly two thirds of returnees’ homes
A displaced Iraqi woman living in the Adhamiyah neighbourhood of Baghdad. Many of the displaced cannot return because other families are squatting in their homes (jamesdale10/Flickr)
Nearly two thirds of homes belonging to Iraqi internally displaced persons (IDPs) or refugees that were occupied by squatters have been evacuated since mid-2008, a government official said on 9 January