Sur les quelques 164 500 réfugiés officiellement enregistrés qui résident aujourd’hui au Rwanda, 45 % sont originaires de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC). Les autorités rwandaises ont adopté des politiques relativement progressives pour favoriser l’intégration des réfugiés, ces derniers étant libres…
On behalf of the Norwegian Refugee Council, it is a pleasure for me to welcome you all to this conference. NRC’s interest in the conference is twofold: Firstly, as an NGO active in promoting the rights of the internally displaced,…
In Norwegian we have an expression: ‘to fall between two chairs’. I think the English equivalent is to ‘fall between the cracks’. In many ways, this describes the situation of IDPs. On the one hand, they have often been…
I would like to thank the Norwegian Refugee Council, NTNU and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) for inviting us all to this seminar on the response strategies of people who are displaced by conflict within the borders of their…
I would like to start with an overview of the Response Strategies Project. We started with two principal objectives, the first of which was to understand how individuals in communities respond to displacement. We felt that, while there was a…
I speak as an IDP woman whose husband was missing after the war in Georgia, displaced with two small children, no shelter and no job. I speak also as a leader of an NGO which I set up with several…
In the 1980s the department of Cordoba started to be affected by the presence of paramilitary groups and by their actions against the civil population, especially against peasant, community and union leaders. At the end of the 1990s, I was…
Governments and the UN believe that the response to internal displacement has often been ineffective. In order to strengthen the international community’s response in situations of internal displacement, a new Unit has been established under the UN Inter-Agency Standing Committee.…
It is a great pleasure to be in Oslo again. I would like to thank the Norwegian Refugee Council and its Secretary-General Steinar Sørlie and the Global IDP Project led by Marc Vincent for the important work they are doing…
I should like to share with you a few impressions from a number of IDP conferences that I have attended over the last four or five years. There have been IDP conferences, symposia, seminars, round tables, square tables, all sorts…