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African Union IDPs Convention

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

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IDPs in Mogadishu queuing for medical attention at one of the health centers. © Ruud Elmendorp

Country update Somalia: Displacement and worsening humanitarian situation as a result of ongoing violence and conflict 30 July 2010 Renewed fighting in Mogadishu and other areas of Somalia since May 2009 has displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians and also exacerbated the already desperate humanitarian situation of existing internally displaced people (IDPs), in particular the children and women among them. About 200,000 people have been displaced since January 2010, in addition to the estimated 1.5 million who remained displaced at the end of 2009. In Somaliland, thousands of families were displaced as a result of fighting between ‘government’ forces and a new rebel group. (...)

Latest Country Profile Updates

• 2 July 2010
  Chad : Prevailing insecurity blocking solutions for IDPs
  Around 170,000 people were internally displaced in eastern Chad and living in 38 camps in mid-2010, as a result of internal armed conflict, inter-ethnic violence over land and natural resources, and attacks by bandits against civilians. ... more
• 28 June 2010
  Philippines : IDP return still hampered by insecurity and lack of assistance
  Nearly a year after a ceasefire agreement between the government and the rebels of the Muslim Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) put an end to renewed fighting in the southern island of Mindanao, some 26,000 families remain displaced in June 2010. ... more

Publications

• Still at risk: Internally displaced children’s rights in north-west Pakistan (June 2010)
  Since August 2008, more than two million children have been forced from their homes in north-western regions of the country by fighting between government forces and militants of the Pakistani Taliban. (...)... more
• Activity Report 2009 (June 2010)
  The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre's (IDMC) Activity Report covering the year 2009.... more
• Appeal 2010 (February 2010)
  With this Appeal, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre presents its plans for the year 2010.... more
• Whose land is this? Land disputes and forced displacement in the western forest area of Côte d’Ivoire (November 2009) (En | Fr)
  Armed conflict broke out in Côte d’Ivoire in 2002, which caused the country to be divided in two: the north under the control of the Forces Nouvelles rebels and the south in the hands of the...... more
• Cycle of conflict and neglect: Mindanaos displacement and protection crisis (Special Country Report) (October 2009)
  This report focuses on the situation of internally displaced people (IDPs) from the Philippines. ... more
• Monitoring disaster displacement in the context of climate change (September 2009)
  Findings of a study by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre... more