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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 30, April 2008), Burma's displaced people

IDP housing in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Photo: Eric Levron, 2007

New Publication Internal displacement to urban areas: the Tufts-IDMC profiling study 4 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. The resulting Tufts-IDMC profiling study aims ultimately to help all organisations which assist and promote the rights of IDPs in conflict-affected countries to collect and analyse information on people displaced into cities.

Latest Country Profile Updates

• 28 August 2008
  Bosnia and Herzegovina : Broader and improved support for durable solutions required
  Twelve years after the war ended, the State Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees (MHRR) of Bosnia and Herzegovina estimated in June 2008 that some 125,000 registered internally displaced people (IDPs) remain. ... more
• 29 August 2008
  Georgia : Tentative return of some of the people who fled August 2008 conflict
  Two weeks after military offensives by Georgia and the Russian Federation, thousands of the 150,000 or more ethnic Georgians and Ossetians who had fled the conflict had returned home by 26 August. ... 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

• 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