Sentences with phrase «forcibly displaced people»

Human displacement refers to the total number of forcibly displaced people, and includes internally displaced people — the largest group represented — and refugees, those forced to across international borders.

Of The Displaced, The Economist says that «If the world's 65.5 million forcibly displaced people formed their own country, it would be the 21st - largest... one of the many things that this imaginary nation lacks... is a literary canon.

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At the end of 2013 — even before the Iraq crisis forced an estimated 1.8 million Iraqis from their homes — around 51.2 million people worldwide had been forcibly displaced due to «persecution, conflict, generalised violence or human rights violations», according to the UN News Centre.

65.6 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide at the end of 2016 as a result of war and natural disasters.

To build the dam, the Guatemalan government forcibly displaced thousands of Achi Mayan people through brutal military - led massacres that wiped out villages throughout the Chixoy River Valley.

Trauma comes in many forms: physical abuse, illness, political violence, environmental disaster, or in the case of exiles, refugees, those forcibly removed or otherwise displaced persons, a form of suspended animation.

The dispersal of people of black African descent — many forcibly displaced by the slave trade — had a profound impact on art and culture that has been frequently overlooked or diminished.

According to the statistics of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2016), 65.6 million people have been forcibly displaced worldwide, i..