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World Facing New Displacement Crisis - UN Refugee Chief

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This year's crises in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Somalia are pushing the number of people forced to flee their homes towards the 45 million mark - the highest number in at least a decade, U.N. refugee chief Antonio Guterres says. There were around 16 million refugees and 26 million people uprooted within their own country at the end of 2008, according to the U.N. refugee agency's annual Global Trends report released on Tuesday. Although this was a slight decline on 2007, it does not reflect the more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on June 17, 2009

For Disaster IDPs: An Institutional Gap

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brookings.edu –

'Climate change is expected to sharply increase the number and severity of natural disasters, displacing millions on all continents. To meet this coming challenge, Roberta Cohen says that the recognition of 'disaster' IDPs is needed along with new institutional arrangements to protect their human rights.'

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on March 30, 2009

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