2018 is the year of the 20th anniversary of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), established in 1998 as the world’s authoritative source of data, research and analysis on internal displacement.

Since the outbreak of conflict in Syria in 2011, close to half the country’s pre-war population ha

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