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A displaced elder for Tirah valley is waiting in queue for the registration in Jirma, District Kohat, Pakistan. Photo: NRC Pakistan/Shahzad Ahmad, May 2013

Country Update Pakistan: Massive new displacement and falling returns require rights-based response 12 June 2013 Counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations and violent clashes between non-state armed groups continue to lead to major, rapid movements of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Pakistan’s volatile north-west. Within the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Khyber and Kurram agencies are currently the worst-affected areas. More than 415,000 people were newly displaced in 2012, and at least 131,000 more have fled their homes since mid-March this year. There are now 1.1 million IDPs registered as displaced by conflict in the north-west, and many more are unregistered in the region and elsewhere. (...)

Latest Country Profile Updates

• 25 March 2013
  Afghanistan : Comprehensive response urgently required as displacement crisis worsens
  As international troops prepare to leave Afghanistan by 2014, more than half a million Afghans are estimated to be internally displaced. The on-going transfer of security responsibility from NATO to Afghan security forces has not been accompanied by a transition to stability. ... more
• 14 March 2013
  Russian Federation : IDPs increasingly neglected despite continuing needs
  More than 14 years after they first fled their homes, at least 29 ,000 people are still internally displaced due to armed conflict and violence in the North Caucasus, and an unknown number of people are still displaced elsewhere in Russia . ... more

Publications

• Internal displacement and the Kampala Convention: an opportunity for development actors (20 November 2012)
  Analytical Paper on the Relevance of Human Rights Approaches for Development Activities Targeting Conflict- and Disaster-Induced Displacement in Africa... more
• Challenges of IDP Protection: Research study on the protection of internally displaced persons in Afghanistan (November 2012)
  A new report, published today by IDMC and NRC presents new evidence highlighting the worrying conditions faced by the growing number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) across Afghanistan. More than 166,000 internally displaced Afghans have been recorded in 2012 alone, bringing the total number of internally displaced due to conflict to at least 460,000.... more
• Activity Report 2011 (July 2012)
  The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre's (IDMC) Activity Report covering the year 2011.... more
• Global Estimates 2012: People displaced by disasters (13 May 2013)
  The Global Estimates report reveals that 32.4 million people were forced to flee their homes in 2012 by disasters such as floods, storms and earthquakes. While Asia and west and central Africa bore the brunt, 1.3 million were displaced in rich countries, with the USA particularly affected. (...)... more
• Internal displacement in Africa: A development challenge (24 October 2012)
  Internally displaced people (IDPs) “are persons or groups of persons who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of...... more
• The neglected generation: the impact of displacement on older people (June 2012)
  While older internally displaced persons (IDPs) experience similar insecurity, human rights violations and discrimination as the rest of the population, they also face additional challenges and risks related to their age. IDMC have been working with Helpage to shine the spotlight on the experience of displacement for older IDPs.... more
• Workshop report: Iraqi Protracted Displacement (April 2012)
  This report provides a brief overview of the themes explored in the workshop organised by the RSC and IDMC in 2011, and goes on to present the main outcomes of the event, laying out proposals for policy development.... more
• Quel avenir pour les personnes déplacées vivant dans les camps de Masisi centre? (February 2012)
  Depuis plus de cinq ans, des milliers de personnes vivent dans des camps de la province du Nord Kivu, RDC. Ce rapport examine les camps de  Bihito, Kalinga, Kilimani et Lushebere se trouvant dans le Masisi, un territoire particulièrement touché par le déplacement.... more