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Record Population Displacement Shows Needs are Rising

Posted by  on Monday, May 16th 2016     
One in three Syrian children, born after the conflict began, have never known a life without war, insecurity or displacement. A new report reveals Syria has the second-largest number of internally displaced people in the world, due to conflict and violence. / Louai Beshara, AFP

Conflict and violence last year caused more than 40 million people to be internally displaced around the world. This record number underscores the importance of addressing growing global needs during the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Turkey later this month.

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Coping with Conflict: Helping Syrians Overcome the Trauma of War

Posted by  on Monday, January 6th 2014     
Syrian children create art at a learning center geared toward helping them deal with the psychosocial stresses of the conflict.

USAID provides children with healing and learning spaces that offer a safe and stable environment to learn and play.

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Troubling Trend: IDP Numbers Due to Conflict, Violence at All-Time High

Posted by  on Thursday, May 30th 2013     

New numbers released by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) show a troubling increase in the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) around the world. Today, 28.8 million people are displaced within their home countries due to conflict and violence—the highest number ever recorded by the IDMC.  This is due in large part to the […]

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Improving Hygiene for Displaced Syrians

Posted by  on Thursday, February 21st 2013     

Basic personal hygiene is critical to help prevent the spread of illness and disease among displaced
Syrians. Read more >>

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Stories From the Field: Iraq

Posted by  on Wednesday, October 17th 2012     

Salah Naeem Hanna was forced to flee his home of 40 years because of the sectarian violence that gripped Baghdad in 2006. With his family of four, he moved back to his childhood hometown in the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq.

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USAID Complex Crises Funds Reinvigorate Agriculture in Sri Lanka

Posted by  on Monday, April 23rd 2012     

Farmer-returnees empowered to develop livelihoods, support their families, and participate positively in their communities. Recently, I visited one of the agriculture programs supported by USAID in the northern region of Sri Lanka where the most intense fighting took place between the Sri Lankan security forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). More than […]

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Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons

Posted by  on Wednesday, March 21st 2012     

(Special Rapporteur Beyani is participating in a roundtable hosted by USAID Deputy Administrator Steinberg on March 22.  USAID supports the work of the Special Rapporteur through the Brookings-London School of Economics (LSE) Project on Internal Displacement.) As a reader of this blog, I invite and challenge you to do more in a personal capacity to […]

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