The pandemic has heralded difficult times for everyone, everywhere. Imagine what it is like for vulnerable internally displaced people in cities like Lagos with high levels of inequality. They moved...
IDMC embarked on a research programme in December 2018 to investigate internal displacement associated with slow-onset disasters and environmental change. This study examines displacement associated...
All are vulnerable, but tens of millions of internally displaced people – often in crowded conditions and without access to water and sanitation, healthcare and government support – are especially...
When extreme weather events coincide with uncommonly high tides caused by the alignment of solar and lunar gravitational pulls, the risk of displacement enters uncharted territory. King Tides, as...
Being forced to leave your home is one of the worst things that can happen to a person. Whether or not you had the opportunity to seek safety within your own country should not be a deciding factor...
The female face of displacement: 21 million women and girls uprooted by conflict and violence around the world Geneva, 5 March 2020 -- New estimates published for the first time today reveal that at...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) embarked on a new research programme in December 2018 to investigate internal displacement associated with slow-onset...
INTRODUCTION The number of people internally displaced by conflict and disasters, and the complexity of internal displacement crises across the world, have substantially increased in the last 15...
CHLOE SYDNEY February 22nd marks the deadline for the formation of South Sudan’s transitional government of national unity, designed to unite president Salva Kiir and head of opposition Riek Machar...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Following decades of civil war, a comprehensive peace agreement and the subsequent independence of South Sudan in 2011 prompted as many as two million refugees to return to the...