The worldwide internal displacement crisis is only getting worse. Over 30 million, that is the number of people who were forced to leave their homes around the world as a result of conflict and disasters last year. That’s roughly 80’000 people displaced every single day! This also represents almost a […]
Internal displacement
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Displaced from their homes at the end of 2004, some 15’000 Manam islanders are still waiting for the Papua New Guinea government to make good on its promise to resettle them to a new location already identified years ago. Obstacles to the resettlement of these internally displaced persons (IDPs) include […]
As has been observed in many displacement contexts, people without tenure security, often referred to as ‘informal settlers’, tend to be among the most vulnerable and most in need of shelter assistance when they are displaced from their homes following a natural disaster or an outbreak of violence. However, they […]
Ai Weiwei’s documentary « Human flow » is about people throughout the world being forcibly displaced from their homes due to circumstances beyond their control, often war, conflict, persecution, natural disasters, but also poverty or hunger. The 2 hours and 20 minutes-long documentary is a stark and visually-powerful reminder of today’s unprecedented […]