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Pakistan: Still at Risk: Internally Displaced Children’s Rights in north-west Pakistan

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Internally displaced boys queuing outside a child-friendly space at a camp in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly North-West Frontier Province), September 2009. (Photo: Mohammed Imtiaz Ahmed/SPARC)
Children displaced within Pakistan face difficulties in accessing school and risk being exploited, according to a new report by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.

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. Around 800,000 children are still displaced in mid-2010. Over a million have returned to their home areas, but they still face hardship because of the extensive destruction of homes, schools and other infrastructure, and risk being forced into early marriage or child labour as their families face destitution. (...)

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Internal Displacement Profile

"IDP Figures and Registration","General"
"IDP Population Movements and Patterns","General"
"Physical Security and Integrity","General"
"Basic Necessities of Life","General"
"Property, Livelihoods, Education and Other Economic, Social and Cultural Rights","General"
"Family Life, Participation, Access to Justice and Other Civil and Political Rights","General"
"Protection of Special Categories of IDPs (Age, Gender, Diversity)","General"
"Durable Solutions (Return, Local Integration, Settlement Elsewhere in the Country)","General"
"National and International Response","General"
"Balochistan","General"

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