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Internally Displaced Persons (IDP)
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Action Towards Increased Quality Education for Internally Displaced Children: Recommendations for the High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement
At the end of 2019, at least 13.4 million school-age children (5-17 years old) were internally displaced due to conflict or violence. These numbers are likely an underestimate with many internally displaced children unaccounted for due to lack of data. Th
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Global Report on Internal Displacement 2020
During 2019, conflict and disasters triggered 33,4 million new internal displacements across 145 countries and territories. These numbers are the highest since 2012. However, many countries and regions also experienced visible efforts to prevent and respo
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Lost at Home: The risks and challenges for internally displaced children and the urgent actions needed to protect them
At the end of 2019, approximately 45.7 million people were internally displaced due to conflict and violence. Nearly half were estimated to be children. In many countries around the world, these children lack access to essential services, which deprives t
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Humanitarian Action for Children 2021: Children on the move and COVID-19 in Mexico and Central America
Mexico and other countries in Central America are facing significant humanitarian needs due to migration flows, violence, internal displacement, food insecurity and poverty. The ongoing difficulties in Mexico and Central America is exacerbated by the ongo
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The Health of Internally Displaced Children in Sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review
Around 41,3 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) were located around the world at the end of 2018. The same year, internal displacement in sub-Saharan Africa was higher than in any other region, with approximately 7,4 million people displaced due t
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Hidden in Plain Sight Thematic Series: Becoming an adult in internal displacement
Internally displaced young women and men, like all internally displaced people (IDPs), are impacted by displacement in multiple ways. As they are at a crucial time in their lives for their personal, social and professional development, they may have parti
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Achieving Durable Solutions for Returnee Children: What do we know?
We are in the midst of a profound ‘returns-first’ shift in the global politics of child displacement. In response to soaring numbers of displaced worldwide –68.5 million, of which more than half are children – governments around the world are increasingl
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Civil Documentation for Internally Displaces Persons (IDPs) in Protracted Displacement
This rapid review examines evidence on how the Iraqi government can simplify or provide temporary civil documentation to IDPs in protracted displacement. Conflict and violence are the main triggers of internal displacement; therefore, information is provi
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Global Trends: Forced displacement in 2018
Every year, adults and children across the world are forced to flee their homes due to violence and disasters. The Global Trends reports by UNHCR are produced every year in order to present current trends on forced displacement. This report presents and s
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Voicing the Needs and Priorities of Children Living in Conflict in the Democratic Republic Of Congo
Between 2017 and 2018, Save the Children organized children’s consultations in five provinces: Lomami, Kasai Oriental, Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu. In each province, seeking to hear from children of different sexes and age groups in areas affected by
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Equitable Access to Quality Education for Internally Displaced Children
There are millions of children living in internal displacement, many of which do not have access to education and thus cannot benefit from the long-term opportunities it affords. Exiting barriers to education include a lack of capacity and resources, pers
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Situation of IDP Children: War Child UK's recommendations for consideration and inclusion in General Assembly report
This document summarises War Child UK's recommendations for the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) report for the General Assembly. Information contained was gathered from country teams in South Sudan and Iraq a