For this year’s World Mental Health Day, we look at the relationship between internal displacement and mental health, the impact of Covid-19, and the support available for internally displaced people...
KATHRYN GIFFIN The Myanmar Armed Forces (MAF) overthrew the democratically elected government in a coup d'état on 1 February 2021. A violent military crackdown and civilian armed resistance followed,...
This report applies the IDMC's original methodology to assess the economic impact of internal displacement in 2020 for 18 countries. Internal displacement affects the wellbeing and the welfare of...
2021 Mid-Year update In IDMC's 2021 mid-year update, we focus on ten situations which have displaced high numbers of people during the first half of the year, and which will need to be carefully...
2020 was an unprecedented and turbulent year for people and the planet. Here at IDMC, as with people across the world, Covid-19 changed the way we work, disrupted our daily lives and confronted us...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The slow onset effects of climate change, such as desertification, glacial retreat, increasing temperatures, land and forest degradation, loss of biodiversity, ocean acidification,...
The life and identity of indigenous peoples is inextricably linked to their land. Land holds deep emotional, cultural, social, philosophical and religious values for them. For many indigenous peoples...
Executive summary People who have been marginalised have made critical contributions to the COVID-19 pandemic response: providing practical support to families, friends and peers (including food...
Summary Disaster displacement is one of the world’s biggest humanitarian and sustainable development challenges, and climate change and urbanisation serve to aggravate the phenomenon. IDMC has built...
Summary Disaster displacement is one of the world's biggest humanitarian and sustainable development challenges, and climate change and urbanisation serve to aggravate the phenomenon. IDMC has built...