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INTERNALLY DISPLACED WOMEN & GIRLS

 

Direct Link to IDP Report:

http://www.internal-displacement.org/8025708F004BE3B1/(httpInfoFiles)/BD8316FAB5984142C125742E0033180B/$file/IDMC_Internal_Displacement_Global_Overview_2007.pdf

 

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Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre Website Link:

http://www.internal-displacement.org/

 

 

17 April 2008

 

Global Internal Displacement Crisis Grew in 2007 - Survey

The global internal displacement crisis continued to worsen in 2007, according to an annual survey released today by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). In 2007, the estimated number of people displaced within their countries by armed conflicts and violence passed the 26 million mark, the highest global total since the early 1990s. Although international attention to the plight of internally displaced people (IDPs) continued to grow, there was no breakthrough in reducing their number or measurably improving their situation.

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AFRICA - GENDER

 

VIOLENCE AGAINST INTERNALLY DISPLACED WOMEN AND GIRLS

 

"The impact of displacement on the security and integrity of women and girls was huge. In Sudan, Cote d'Ivoire, Burundi, Somalia, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Kenya, women bore the brunt of conflicts and violent environments....Displaced women and children continue to endure sexual violence, at the hands of opportunists taking advantage of an environment of conflict and lawlessness, or of combatants seeking to shame and break up family units and communities. Fear of sexual violence itself caused displacement as people fled to avoid sexually-motivated attacks...."

 

 

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