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Forced Migration Review (Issue 30, April 2008), Burma's displaced people

Internally displaced pensioners who fled to Volgograd from Chechnya in 1993. (Nadine Walicki / IDMC, March 2008)

Special Country Report Struggling to integrate: Displaced people from Chechnya living in other areas of the Russian Federation 30 June 2008 In an atmosphere of instability and violence leading up to the first separatist conflict in Chechnya in 1994, some 100,000 non-ethnic Chechens fled to other parts of the Russian Federation. People continued to flee until the conflict ended in 1996, and again when a second conflict erupted in 1999. In total, perhaps 600,000 people, including ethnic Chechens, have been forced out of Chechnya from 1991 to the present. [...]

Latest Country Profile Updates

• 26 June 2008
  Senegal : IDPs remain vulnerable as obstacles to return and reintegration persist
  Despite the scarcity of information on the numbers, it is estimated that during 2005 more than 65 percent of the people displaced from their homes in the southern region of Casamance were able to return. ... more
• 19 June 2008
  Nepal : Sustainability of IDP returns undermined by lack of assistance
  More than 18 months after a peace agreement between Maoist rebels and the Nepalese government, an estimated 50,000 to 70,000 people displaced by ten years of civil war remain unable to return to their homes. ... more

Special Country Reports

• 5 November 2007
  Resisting displacement by combatants and developers: Humanitarian Zones in north-west Colombia
  In the north-western department of Chocó, near Colombia’s border with Panama, forcibly displaced people have established Humanitarian Zones in a bid to hang on to their land and livelihoods. ... more

Publications

• A Heavy Burden - Internally Displaced in Georgia: Stories from Abkhazia and South Ossetia (April 2008)
  A Heavy Burden, published in Georgian, Russian and English brings together 13 accounts from Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.... 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
• Activity Report 2007 (April 2008)
  The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre's (IDMC) Activity Report covering the year 2007.... more