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January 28, 2013

Escalating violence in northern Mali fuelling hunger in the Sahel

The escalating fighting and displacement of people in Mali and neighbouring countries is exacerbating the Sahel’s chronic food crisis, says Christian Aid.
December 24, 2012

Williams highlights plight of displaced people at Christmas

The Christmas letter to the heads of other churches from the Archbishop of Canterbury has made a point of remembering the plight of displaced persons globally.
December 15, 2012

Protection of uprooted people is integral to religions, says WCC

The WCC has welcomed the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees dialogue on faith communities and protection of displaced peoples.
October 22, 2012

Over 72 million people are forcibly displaced globally

More than one in every hundred of the world’s citizens are now forcibly displaced, says a new report by the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
October 21, 2012

NGOs want action to stop Afghan displacement camp deaths

Urgent steps are needed if Afghanistan is to avoid a repeat of the deaths among children and adults in the country’s displacement camps last year.
February 9, 2012

Israel asked to cancel plan to forcibly displace Bedouin communities

Amnesty has called on Israel to cancel military plans to forcibly displace around 2,300 Bedouin residents of the West Bank onto an area by a garbage dump.
October 13, 2011

Churches in Colombia launch monitoring programme for violence victims

As a new monitoring programme is launched, human rights groups claim that the number of "displaced people" in Colombia is close to 5 million.
August 30, 2010

US and Colombian churches seek rapport on displacement

A US inter-church group has met with Colombian church representatives to discuss issues of internally displaced people and regional relations.
August 6, 2010

Georgian government must secure future for displaced, says new report

Amnesty International says the Georgian authorities must do more to secure the future of those displaced by conflict in the 1990s and in the war with Russia.
November 25, 2009

Sri Lanka told promise to free displaced must be followed by action

Human rights groups have welcomed the government of Sri Lanka’s promise to lift by 1 December any restrictions on movement of at least 130,000 people displaced by the war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam.