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Seizing the momentum: Displacement on the global climate change agenda

IDMC's new briefing paper explains how the need to ratchet up efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change is made ever more urgent by the millions of people being displaced from their homes year by climate-related disasters.

Leaving no one behind: internal displacement and the New Urban Agenda

As UN member states commit to the New Urban Agenda for the next 20 years, this paper sets out the specific challenges facing people internally displaced to and within urban areas and related recommendations to ensure they benefit from the implementation of the agenda and are not ‘left behind’.

IDMC responds to UN Summit and releases IDP update

IDMC responds to shortcomings of the UN Summit on refugees and migrants, as new IDP figures show relentless increase in internal displacement in 2016.

If you don’t measure, you don’t know: the invisible plight of elderly IDPs

The elderly are usually the last to flee from an unfolding conflict or disaster. Once displaced, many are vulnerable to poor health and face greater obstacles to restoring livelihoods and achieving durable solutions.

A Call to Action: tackling displacement in Central America

As an invisible humanitarian crisis intensifies as a result of drug and criminal violence in Mexico and Central America’s Northern Triangle, a regional call to action provides reason to be cautiously optimistic.

2016 Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID 2016)

The GRID 2016 report covers internal displacement caused by conflict and sudden-onset disasters. In addition it also explores displacement currently "off the grid", such as that caused by criminal and gang violence, slow-onset disasters like drought, and development projects.

Visit our special website for the report and promotional materials.

Pushed Aside - Displaced for "Development" in India

This report documents and analyses the scale, process and impacts of displacement caused by development projects and business activities. IDMC shows through nine cases in India that IDPs suffer detrimental impacts and rarely recover.

Press release available here

Ignoring the roots of Europe’s refugee influx

The current refugee influx in Europe is, in part, a symptom of the failure to protect and assist internally displaced people in their own country. The United Nations is missing an important opportunity in September to address displacement holistically.

The people behind the dams, mines, riverfront ‘development’ projects

In March 2016, IDMC undertook its first research mission to India dedicated to displacement caused by development projects.

Internal Displacement Update 3 - 16 November

This update presents key internal displacement developments during this period

View the update

Global Internal Displacement Database (GIDD)

IDMC has developed this new interactive database designed for policy makers, NGOs, researchers, journalists and the general public, to make our data and analysis on internal displacement more user-friendly and transparent. The GIDD enables you to explore, filter and sort IDMC’s data on internal displacement to produce your own graphs and tables which you can export in several different formats. Please explore our database to find all the latest country figures plus much more. Please note this database replaces the individual country pages that used to exist on this website.

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Leaving no one behind: internal displacement and the New Urban Agenda

As UN member states commit to the New Urban Agenda for the next 20 years, this paper sets out the specific challenges facing people internally displaced to and within urban areas and related recommendations to ensure they benefit from the implementation of the agenda and are not ‘left behind’.

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2016 Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID 2016)

Conflict, violence and disasters internally displaced 27.8 million people in 2015, subjecting a record number of men, women and children to the trauma and upheaval of being forcibly displaced within their own country.

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Law & Policy

On behalf of the Global Protection Cluster Task Team on Law and Policy, IDMC has launched a new law and policy database revealing how countries around the world are framing their response to situations of internal displacement through national legislation and policies.

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