IASC Weekly (GVA): The Internally Displaced - Identifying their Priority Needs
Geneva
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Meeting Documents
1. The Internally Displaced - Identifying their Priority Needs
In the past few months, we discussed among others the impact of climate change, increased urbanisation and vulnerability, food security and resilience in the Sahel, the conflict in Syria, in this IASC meeting fora. One of the common themes that has approached was that the impact of some of these trends and events led to increased internal displacement. For 2012, IDMC states that "The total number of people internally displaced by armed conflict, generalised violence and human rights violations worldwide as of the end of 2012 was estimated to be 28.8 million. This represents an increase of 2.4 million on the previous year, and is the highest figure IDMC has ever recorded. Around 6.5 million people were newly displaced, almost twice as many as the 3.5 million during 2011."At the same time, the priority needs of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have not been discussed in this forum for some time. Therefore, we are particularly pleased that the following panellists will join us to discuss recent developments, themes and initiatives, and some of the priority needs and ongoing challenges for IDPs, at next weeks meeting.
Panellists:
• Ms. Kimberly Roberson: UNHCR The Joint IDP Profiling Service, JIPS • Mr. Alfredo Zamudio: Director IDMC Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, IDMC • Ms. Rosa da Costa: OHCHR/Office of the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of IDPs • Mr. Vlatko Avramovski: International Organisation for Migration (IOM), Displacement Tracking Matrix
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