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A very quick look at the year 2019 for the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. It was another year in which tens of millions of people were displaced by conflict and disaster: IDMC’s first task...

This paper describes the methodology IDMC is developing in collaboration with its partners to monitor displacement associated with drought and addresses some of the main challenges inherent in the...

This strategy describes the approach IDMC has developed to monitoring cross-border displacement associated with conflict, and addresses some of the main challenges inherent in the exercise. We...

A PARTNERSHIP WITH GERMANY'S FEDERAL FOREIGN OFFICE The global number of people displaced by slow onset disasters remain unknown. Drought conditions were responsible for at least 760,000 new...

A STUDY FINANCED BY GERMANY’S FEDERAL FOREIGN OFFICE The majority of people who flee their homes to escape conflict, violence and disasters do not cross an international border. Of the 70.8 million...

SUMMARY Displacement in Afghanistan is both a historical and contemporary phenomenon. One in four Afghans have been displaced, and conflict triggered 372,000 new internal displacements in 2018...

Ten years on from the earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010, the figures tell us that most of the displaced population has officially been able to return home. But the numbers only tell...

Executive Summary Myanmar has been making headlines for its apparent campaign of ethnic cleansing against the country’s Rohingya. Violent attacks against civilians have forced over 745,000 people to...

By Christelle Cazabat, Researcher at the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, and Tichafara Chisaka, Project Manager of the Inclusive Data Charter. Obaid is a nine-year-old boy from Yemen...

A forgotten crisis: Half a million people displaced by drought in Ethiopia Geneva, 13 December 2019 – Around 425,000 people are estimated to be living in internal displacement in Ethiopia as a result...