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IDMC - Internal Displacement
Monitoring Centre
PAKISTAN - DISPLACEMENT CAUSED BY
NATURAL DISASTERS & CONFLICTS - WOMEN & CHILDREN
DisplacedPakistani
villagers walk in search of clean water after fleeing their homes inBadin
district near Hyderabad, Pakistan, on Sept 21, 2011. The U.N. issued
anappeal to provide food, water, sanitation, health and emergency shelter
toflood victims.(AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
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Full IDMC Pakistan Overview -
January 2012
Protection Issues
The differences in the
situations of those who can register as IDPs and others who identify themselves
as displaced are considerable. Internally displaced families who have never been
registered do not qualify for most assistance programmes. This particularly
affects IDPs from some of the most vulnerable groups, including households
headed by women, and children (Dawn, 1 November 2011; IAPC, 8 December 2011,
p.3).
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Pakistan
has faced a series of displacement crises due to natural disasters and armed
conflict in recent years. 19 million people have been displaced by earthquakes
and flooding and over five million by armed conflict over the past seven years.
In December 2011, more than half a million people were still displaced
following the flooding of the Indus in September, and almost one million
remained internally displaced by armed conflict in the north-west.
Conflict continued to cause displacement in Pakistan in 2011. Since April
2011, major displacements have taken place in Kurram and Khyber agencies of the
Federally Administered Tribal Agencies (FATA), and in a number of other
locations.