displacement

Displaced women who fled the Aleppo countryside, sit with their children in Tabqa, Syria December 4, 2024. REUTERS/Orhan Qereman/File Photo
Middle East

Up to 1.5 million people could flee Syrian escalation, UN official says

A displaced Palestinian woman, who fled Jabalia after the Israeli military called on residents to evacuate, carries her belongings on her head as she makes her way towards Gaza City, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, May 12, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
World+Biz

UNHCR warns against apathy, inaction amid spike in forced displacement

A file photo of economist Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad. Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

Char area displacement should be top priority: Economist Kholiquzzaman

Afghan citizens gather to get their registrations to cross into Afghanistan, after Pakistan gives the last warning to undocumented immigrants to leave, at the Friendship Gate of Chaman Border Crossing along the Pakistan-Afghanistan Border in Balochistan Province, in Chaman, Pakistan November 1, 2023. REUTERS/Saeed Ali Achakzai
South Asia

Displaced, repatriated and crossing borders: Afghan people make grueling journeys to survive

File photo. Photo: Wikimedia
Africa

Record 6.9 million internally displaced in DR Congo: UN

Smoke rises above buildings after an aerial bombardment, during clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum North, Sudan, May 1, 2023. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/File Photo
World+Biz

Sudan war enters 100th day as mediation attempts fail

Infograph: TBS
By The Numbers

Countries with most internal displacement by disaster

Natural disasters caused 14m displacements in Bangladesh in 2010-21
Environment

Natural disasters caused 14m displacements in Bangladesh in 2010-21

Asylum seekers rescued from Libyan prisons and sent to Rwanda for processing, play at the Emergency Transit Mechanism (ETM) Gashora transit centre, in Bugesera, eastern Rwanda June 10, 2022. REUTERS/Jean Bizimana/File Photo
World+Biz

Food crisis will drive record displacement levels higher: UN refugee chief

A woman walks to board a bus arranged to evacuate local residents, in the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine February 18, 2022. Photo: Reuters
World+Biz

UNHCR says 160,000 people displaced

Thousands of climate-induced, internally displaced people get added to Dhaka city every year as permanent residents. PHOTO: Din Muhammad Shibly
Thoughts

Tackling climate change to prevent forced displacement

File photo. Photo: Noor-A-Alam/TBS
Environment

Finance loss and damage to address displacement: Climate activists

Children stand outside a school in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on June 13, 2019. The school is being used as a shelter for internally displaced people from Burkina Faso who have fled communal clashes. AFP Photo
Coronavirus chronicle

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