Internal displacement has long been a neglected issue on the international stage. Here are four priority actions aid actors must take in 2025.
Conference on Internally Displaced People: Shifting Power and Advancing Protection
Please mark your calendars for April 14, 2025, for an in-depth event on the protection of internally displaced people.
Two Years on from the Pretoria Agreement: What’s Next for Ethiopia?
Please join Georgetown, ECDC, OSF, Refugees International, and Amnesty USA for a two-panel conference on what lies ahead for Ethiopia.
A Global View on Responses to Internal Displacement: Where to Go From Here?
The world needs an ambitious, forward-looking agenda on internal displacement now, one with better engagement, investment, and coordination.
Dangerous Territory: A Deepening Humanitarian Emergency in Northern Mozambique
Mozambique is a reminder that the world’s failures to sustain investments in peace produce humanitarian fallout and widespread displacement.
Making Fishers into Farmers? Mozambique’s IDPs Need Livelihood Support
Recent climate disasters have displaced more than 850,000 Mozambicans from the coast, further inland. Better livelihood programming is now needed to help them start anew.
Scars of War and Deprivation: An Urgent Call to Reverse Tigray’s Humanitarian Crisis
Tigray’s IDPs are paying the price, and if more help does not come soon, some may not be able to hang on for long.
Newsweek: Tigray Is Still in Crisis—The Guns Have Stopped, but Hunger Abounds
Northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region was one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises in 2021 and 2022. It has since been crowded out of the headlines, but the situation remains dire. An estimated 600,000 were killed during the two years of fighting between Tigrayan, Amhara, Eritrean, Ethiopian, and other armed groups. Much of Tigray lived under siege for nearly two years, receiving almost no food, medicine, or humanitarian assistance.
CNN: Report details mass atrocities and hunger in Darfur
Mass atrocities are happening again in Sudan. The international community must step up pressure to stop them. Daniel P. Sullivan joined CNN’s Rosemary Church to discuss his latest report Bearing Witness: Atrocities and Looming Hunger in Darfur.
Responding to Internal Displacement: Progress and Challenges
What must be done to meaningfully include internally displaced leaders and groups in conversations about solutions?