600,000 people were displaced.

During 2003, approximately 207,607 people were forcibly displaced.

An MSF hospital in a camp for displaced people.

More than 2 million people remain displaced from their homes.

What we need is international assistance to resettle the displaced people.

I was assigned to work for the homeless, for the internally displaced people.

More than 20,000 more people were displaced in the last few weeks alone.

The internally displaced constitute a specific category of people affected by mass exodus.

It is believed that at least 1 million people are internally displaced countrywide.

Millions of people a large number of them children are now displaced or homeless.

However, for the vast majority of those displaced people, access to land remains uncertain or impossible.

More people are internally displaced in Africa than in the rest of the world put together.

Reports indicate that up to 150 people were killed and about 50,000 people were displaced in and around the Hafun peninsula in Puntland .

Globally an estimated 25 million people have been displaced internally because of conflict or human rights violations.

In Liberia, a total of 269,000 refugees and internally displaced people had returned home since October 2004.

By the way, 80 percent of all refugees and displaced people in the world are women and girls.

In the Dominican Republic, some 38,000 people were displaced bridges, highways and the water supply system were damaged.

In 1995, the Beijing Platform for Action estimated 125 million people to be migrants, refugees and displaced persons.

There are concerns, for example, about problems associated with non owners squatting on land belonging to people who have been displaced, thereby making it more difficult, and potentially dangerous, for the displaced to return home.

In Uganda, 2.1 million displaced people living in settlements were dependent on WFP food assistance as at June 2005.

During the course of the conflict, over 25,000 children have been abducted, while 1.7 million people have been displaced.

This is in addition to the over 2 million people who have been displaced over the past seven years.

It is estimated that today approximately 25 million people in 52 countries are internally displaced owing to conflict alone.

She called for a reassessment of assistance modalities and renewed focus of support on emergency assistance to displaced people and other groups at risk of hunger and malnutrition as well as primary education for displaced children.

Only 2,302 persons displaced since 1999 returned to Kosovo during 2004, a decline of 40 per cent compared to 2003, which was largely attributable to the March violence 1,864 people remain displaced since the March violence.

Like others, we share a specific concern for the situation of the nearly 2 million displaced people in northern Uganda.

Displaced people are also a category of most vulnerable persons and are often in urgent need of protection and assistance.

It had been difficult to determine the exact number of displaced people because of the lack of a proper registration system and the unwillingness of displaced persons to come forward out of fear of reprisal and other reasons.

Despite the vulnerability of minorities, the religious breakdown of displaced people closely reflects that of the country 64 Shi a, 32 Sunni, and 4 Christian. But the ethnic breakdown of displaced people 93 Arab, 4 Assyrian, and 1 Kurd illustrates the grave insecurity in central Iraq and the relative stability of Kurdistan.

Yet at the same time, assistance to displaced people in Darfur is falling well short of what had been pledged, while major crises, such as the one in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where more than 3.8 million people have been killed and 2.3 million displaced since 1997, remain woefully underfunded.

Despite progress, however, an estimated 160,000 people remain displaced in Afghanistan owing to insecurity or drought in their place of origin.

The current death toll is estimated at 500, and over 100,000 people are estimated to have been displaced and left homeless.

Internally displaced persons

Internally displaced persons

Internally displaced persons

The consolidation of peace in a number of conflicts during 2004 encouraged the return of refugees and displaced people to their homes.

The internally displaced persons camp, sheltering 10,000 people, is located inside the boundary of Bunia town, adjacent to the MONUC logistics base.

Trafficking is a further serious risk that is heightened when people are displaced, families separated, children are orphaned and livelihoods are destroyed.

The crisis of refugees and internally displaced young people and the loss of basic human rights as a result of armed conflict is a cause of concern to young people.

The floods killed more than 600 people, displaced 1.7 million and affected as many as 34 million people, destroying nearly 1 million houses and more than 1.4 million acres of farmland.

In Darfur alone, some 2.5 million people are expected to need humanitarian assistance in 2005, including more than 1.6 million internally displaced persons.

Refugees and displaced persons

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Refugee and displaced children

Between 30 April and 2 May, 25 people were killed and 41 injured in Duékoué, Yrozon, Blody and Tao Zeo and more than 9,000 people, mostly from the Guéré community, were displaced.