"Displaced persons" refers to people who have been forced to leave their homes and communities due to reasons such as war, natural disasters, or persecution. These individuals have been removed from their regular living situations and are seeking refuge or a safe place to stay.
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Older people, people with disabilities, indigenous people, refugees and
internally displaced persons are also particularly vulnerable to poverty.
A new composite conflict and displacement database was used to identify major episodes of political violence and number
of displaced people at country level, for the last 50 years.
The family remained there until the end of the war, and then moved through nine camps for
displaced persons in five years.
As displaced people, they have lost hope that they might eventually return to their homeland or survive in their present condition.
Search country by country to see how
many displaced persons there are, as well as how much funding is required to care for them.
This is a global information blind spot that should be of concern to governments, given that the risks faced
by displaced people tend to increase the longer that they are displaced.
He also drew attention to the $ 4 million the company recently pledged to
help displaced people across the world.
Because of an extensive relational network, donations to this ministry reach the least accessible and most
vulnerable displaced people.
This is why you carry renters insurance — there are
several displaced people who are displaced as a direct result of one person's actions.
While governments struggle with the best way to accommodate the massive influx
of displaced people, business owners are also pitching in.
People are leaving the camps
for displaced persons and the night commuter shelters which protected tens of thousands of children are now in the process of closing.
«Additionally, it will facilitate the relocation of Internally
Displaced Persons from IDP camps to their communities.
In a joint statement, the Foreign and Interior Ministers said: «We are providing aid to
displaced people fleeing from the threats of Islamic State and who have sought refuge in Kurdistan.
The agency also said the grant would help to improve the health of children aged six months to five years and lactating women in Internally
Displaced Persons camps in Borno State.
«According to some estimates, there are already almost as many environmentally
displaced people on the planet as traditional refugees,» said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Republican Rep. Chris Gibson, an Army veteran who might run for governor in 2018, took the opposite view, saying the US «should immediately suspend its Syrian
displaced person support program until we know more about what happened in Paris and until we can assure the safety and security of our people.»
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The crowd was made up of Internally
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Displaced Persons where victims come to get food, clothing and temporary shelter.
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BNPB said 70,610 people were being accommodated at 240
displaced person shelters, while many others have been allowed to return to their houses.
Refugees and [internally
displaced people] fleeing war and natural disasters face tremendous challenges in continuing their education.
Meanwhile, Acting Director, Relief and Rehabilitation of NEMA, Mr Kayode Fagbemi who represented the director general, Engr Mustapha Maihaja, informed the lawmakers that the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, gave approval to the agency to split the 10, 000 metric tonnes of rice for internally
displaced persons into two and give WFP one part in order to aid faster food distribution.
Izak Szewelwicz was born in Germany's Bergen -
Belsen displaced persons camp in 1945 and was sent by his mother, Aida, to Israel to be raised by foster parents.
F. Murray Abraham was trying to stay young, but even he had a bigger plan to
displace a people living on a fountain of youth.
«We also need to carry out other preparations, especially for
displaced people whose homes or surrounding infrastructure have been damaged.
Ernst Haas's
Last Displaced Person Boat from 1951 documents that for a limited time, the U.S. authorized permanent residency for 200,000 Europeans displaced by WWII.
Ernst Haas Last
Displaced Person Boat (View of immigrant ship in New York Harbor, bound for Ellis Island), 1951 Gelatin silver print; printed c. 1951 12 3/4 x 10 3/8 inches
Hacking Better Shelter is series of IKEA - style hacks designed to expand the use of Better Shelter, a leading emergency shelter system
housing displaced people around the world.
Now home to more than one million refugees — more than one - third of its population — Lebanon has taken the longest to
resettle displaced people, says Soerens.
Flash flooding,
which displaces people and animals from their homes, is most common in April, May, and June, and causes spikes in animal shelter intake.
Aloson, who is among thousands of
displaced persons taking shelter in Maiduguri host community, commended the military over their commitment to rescue the abducted girls.