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Displaying 90 of about 114 resultsThis is the fourth edition of IOM annual publications aiming to enhance understanding of natural disasters, sudden natural onset events and slow onset events, and their links to human mobility. It reviews case studies across continents, dealing with both developing and developed counties. It considers key concepts as community resilience and social vuln…
This paper addresses the vulnerability of Bangladesh to the impacts of climate change and the need to face a challenge of this magnitude through the implementation of effective policies to protect climate displaced persons. It highlights the 18 different policies, acts, laws and programmes relevant to climate displacement in Bangladesh and to the rehab…
IOM Director General William Lacy Swing is calling on the world to include migrants and displaced persons in disaster risk reduction policies and practices ahead of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction.
The conference, which begins tomorrow (14/3) in Sendai, Japan, will lead to the establishment of a post-2015 framework for Disaster…
This article addresses the expected increase of migration flows due to climate change, especially from socially and environmentally vulnerable populations, and the absence of official protection under international law, which has implications for the human security of migrants. It argues that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN…
Can the United Nations help to protect people seeking safety abroad if their homes and jobs are destroyed by prolonged drought, rising sea levels or other climate change-related phenomena in the same way as if they were displaced by war or human rights abuses? The short answer, today anyway, is no.
The more considered – and thus far, thorny – response…
Kabul - Last year, Afghanistan’s Ghor Province lost thousands of its inhabitants. Many fled due to conflict, but others fled due to a more subtle threat: drought.
An estimated three-quarters of the population was affected when rain-fed crop harvests were destroyed due to the dry spell (and flash floods) that hit during the planting season, according to…
In her article for environmentalresearchweb, Liz Kalaugher gives voice to a Canadian team willing to bring the climate change migration issue forward following the deterioration of living conditions for many people around the world. "To date, no international body has accepted responsibility for addressing the issue of climate migration, despite its imp…
When mobility drivers are scrutinised and climate change is found to play a role in movement, it remains difficult to determine the extent of its influence. “Misleading claims about mass migration induced by climate change continue to surface in both academia and policy.” There are arguments to indicate that research needs to move beyond simplistic assu…
This report highlights how droughts and floods, insecurity and conflict are some of the causes that push millions of people into displacement every year, and are contributing to the increasing levels of internal displacement recorded across the continent. Internal displacement is a humanitarian, governance, development and security concern that needs ou…
The report covers internal displacement caused by conflict and sudden-onset disasters, on which IDMC has been the global authority for years. In addition it now also explores displacement currently "off the grid", such as that caused by criminal and gang violence, slow-onset disasters like drought, and development projects. It also takes the reader “ins…
This report documents the humanitarian challenges encountered by internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Somalia, in the context of drought and ongoing conflict in the country. It outlines problems such as food insecurity and undernutrition, the lack of sanitation and gender-based violence and makes recommendations on the scaling-up and improved coordina…
This report examines three examples of crisis modifiers, a set of innovative risk financing options, in the Sahel and examines their use as a potential solution for a more flexible aid system. This could address the gap created by the traditional division between humanitarian aid and long-term development, in which pre-planned development prog…
By Zoe Tabary and Valeria Cardi
Chronic fatigue, weight loss and lingering sadness. Mohammed Elmouved does not need a doctor to diagnose his symptoms.
"It's my animals," said the livestock owner, at a dusty herders' camp in R'Kiz, on the edge of the Mauritanian desert.
"They've barely had anything to eat or drink in days, so the weakest ones are dyin…
New UN Development Programme report highlights the challenges and opportunities of building climate resilience as the region works toward peaceful low-carbon climate-resilient development.
Climate risks threaten development gains in the Arab Region and will undermine efforts to end poverty and hunger by 2030, according to a new report launche…
This year’s Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) explores why so many countries still struggle despite 20 years of international, regional and national policy efforts and investments. Two decades of investment in improving the lives of internally displaced people (IDPs) have not produced solutions for the majority of them. Progress in…