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INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT: A GLOBAL OVERVIEW [PDF]

open access: possibleRefugee Survey Quarterly, 2000
Internal displacement caused by violent conflicts, systematic violations of human rights and other traumas is truly a global crisis, affecting an estimated 20 to 25 million people in over forty countries. Some five million internally displaced persons can be found in Asia.
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International Monetary Fund and Aid Displacement

International Journal of Health Services, 2011
Several recent papers find evidence that global health aid is being diverted to reserves, education, military, or other sectors, and is displacing government spending. This is suggested to occur because ministers of finance have competing, possibly corrupt, priorities and deprive the health sector of resources.
Sanjay Basu   +2 more
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Internal Fixation of Displaced Fractures of the Sacrum

Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research, 1996
The results of internal fixation in 30 patients with displaced fractures of the sacrum were retrospectively reviewed. All fractures were displaced at least 1 cm. Neurologic injuries occurred in 40% (12 of 30) patients. In 17 patients who underwent open reduction, the preoperative displacement averaged 24 mm and the postoperative displacement averaged 4
James A. Goulet   +4 more
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The legal protection of internally displaced persons

2005
As demonstrated in the previous chapter, the concept of internal displacement needs to be distinguished from the concept of refugeehood. Refugees are covered by an ‘established’ regime of protection, but internally displaced persons, because they remain within the borders of their state, cannot benefit from it.
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The Internally Displaced in Lebanon* [PDF]

open access: possibleCenter for Migration Studies special issues, 1994
Selim Abou   +9 more
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Refugees and Internally Displaced People

2007
Millions of refugees and internally displaced people (IDP) reflect the human consequences of armed conflicts and disasters around the world. These individuals, families, communities, and societies suffer from conditions of war and violence, all of which can be considered human rights violations, including torture, rape, abductions, sexual violation ...
Nancy Baron   +2 more
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Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

2017
Abstract This chapter examines the roles, functions, achievements, and failures of the principal international organization — the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) — to protect refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), and to find solutions to their plight.
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Internal displacement and the conflict in Abkhazia

International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, 1995
AbstractIn the internal displacement crisis arising from the secessionist armed conflict in Abkhazia, Georgia, ethnic Georgians are the principal victims. They have been displaced from Abkhazia by a policy of ethnic cleansing which, though perhaps not fully developed at the time of the actual displacement, has rendered the area ethnically homogeneous ...
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A new book on internal and international displacement

Journal of Internal Displacement
In May 2022, an exam copy of Ulrike Krause’s book Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp: Gender, Violence, and Coping in Uganda was received  after an initial hesitation from Cambridge University Press. Their concern was that a request for an exam copy is subject to an  instructor teaching a course wherein students taking their course will ...
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