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TEN YEARS OF GUIDING PRINCIPLES ON INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT
Achievements and Future Challenges
Oslo, 16-17 October 2008

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Forced Migration Review (Issue 31, September 2008), Climate change and displacement

Internally displaced children in Kambakota, northern Central African Republic (IDMC 2008)

Special Country Report State of Neglect: Displaced Children in the Central African Republic 26 November 2008 Internally displaced children in the Central African Republic face severe protection problems from ongoing insecurity and violence. They have witnessed extreme levels of violence such as the killing of family members when their villages were attacked by road bandits known as Zaraguina or coupeurs de route. Their basic needs remain largely unmet, and many displaced children have also suffered from economic exploitation, ethnic discrimination and recruitment into armed groups.

Latest Country Profile Updates

• 21 November 2008
  Democratic Republic of the Congo : Focus on North Kivu Province: IDPs on the move face grave human rights violations
  At least 250,000 people have left their homes or places of displacement in North Kivu since the end of August 2008, following large-scale fighting between the forces of rebel leader Laurent Nkunda and the Congolese army and other armed groups. ... more
• 12 November 2008
  Russian Federation : Displaced people still struggling to lead a normal life
  Up to 136,000 people remain displaced in Russia more than fifteen years after the beginning of armed conflict in the republics of the north Caucasus. ... more

Special Country Reports

• 21 August 2008
  The Many Faces of Displacement: IDPs in Zimbabwe
  Hundreds of thousands of people have been internally displaced in Zimbabwe as a result of the actions of their own government. Most recently, tens of thousands of people have been displaced by a campaign of state-sponsored violence following the elections on 29 March 2008. ... more

Publications

• The Great Lakes Pact and the Rights of Displaced People: A Guide for Civil Society (September 2008)
  The Guide aims to help organisations use the Great Lakes Pact to promote the rights of refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) in the region.... more
• Internal displacement to urban areas: the Tufts-IDMC profiling study (September 2008)
  IDMC identified the need to develop and test a methodology to assess the number and situation of IDPs in urban centres, to complement the Guidance on Profiling Internally Displaced Persons. (...)... more
• Internal Displacement: Global Overview of Trends and Developments in 2007 (April 2008)
  Yearly report on major global and regional developments in the field of internal displacement.... more