IASC Weekly meeting: IDPs in Mexico and outcome 78th Working Group and Principals meeting
Geneva
Meeting Documents
1. Forced displacement caused by drug cartels in Mexico
Sebastián Albuja, IDMC Country Analyst, will brief on the emerging situation of forced displacement in Mexico's northern States, based on a recent mission and paper recently published by IDMC on the subject.
Background
Drug cartel violence in Mexico has escalated dramatically since it broke out in 2006, and has thus far left roughly 30,000 people dead. An overlooked aspect of this violence is its impact on the civilian population, including its impact on forced displacement. Figures of people displaced by drug cartel violence are not systematically collected by the Government, but surveys conducted by national research centres place the number of people who have fled their homes at around 230,400. Roughly half of those would have crossed the border into the United States, which would leave about 115,000 people living as internally displaced people (IDPs), most likely living in the States of Chihuahua, Durango, Coahuila and Veracruz.
2. Outcome of the 78th IASC Working Group meeting and December 2010 IASC Principals meeting
Simon Lawry-White, Chief of the IASC Secretariat, will summarise the major outcome and decisions of the 78th IASC Working Group meeting and the December 2010 IASC Principals meeting. He will share some implications of these decisions for the work of the IASC in 2011.
Presenters
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