The issue of internal displacement remains poorly understood despite the very large number of people involved.
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Since fighting broke out in April 2023, some 150,000 people have been killed in Sudan and an estimated 13.5 million displaced.
The issue of returning Australian citizens connected to Islamic State has become a vexed issue. There are better ways to handle it.
Temporary ceasefire should be seen more broadly as a window to further engage with all parties to find long-term solutions.
Refugee settlements are particularly affected by high temperatures and extreme rainfall, even more so than the rest of their host countries.
The idea of what it means to be South Sudanese is not universally accepted in the young nation.
They do menial jobs but also trust in God as a coping strategy.
Building on our track record of support for refugee resettlement, Canada should stand up for those uprooted within their own countries and unable to reach our shores.
As the former UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Guterres could promote a more unified approach to helping the displaced.
The rise in the number of people fleeing Boko Haram terror calls for urgent amendments to Nigeria’s constitution to provide legal protection to the country’s millions of internally displaced citizens.
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Steinberg Postdoctoral Fellow in International Migration Law, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, Faculty of Law, McGill University
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Professor of Law, University of Essex
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Associate Professor of History, University of Washington
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Visiting Researcher, University of Leeds
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Professor of Sociology (Criminology, Victimology and Security Studies), University of Ibadan
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Full Professor, Political Science and International Development Studies, McGill University
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DPhil Candidate, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
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Senior Researcher, Migration and Development, Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), United Nations University
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Lecturer in International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Director of the Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study, University of London
