The Committee requests the State party not to forcibly displace populations and to re examine its policy in this regard.

In some areas, temporary displacement of the population resulted from the brutal and arbitrary nature of these arrests.

The country is emerging from 10 years of war, which has caused the displacement of a fifth of the population and has gravely damaged physical and economic infrastructures.

September's fresh violence directed against the civilian population caused tens of thousands of civilians to be displaced.

In relation to any policies or programmes that may lead to the removal of their children, or their removal, displacement or relocation from their traditional territories.

A more coordinated response to protection and assistance for internally displaced persons could help stabilize volatile political situations and prevent further population displacement, including cross border movement.

Though population transfers, even as part of a peace settlement, would not be easily accepted under modern human rights law, the wreckage of post war Europe brought a different conclusion.

The setting of many incidents of abuse since the beginning of the conflict, the west of the country is going through a situation of great insecurity, with grave consequences such as the displacement of the civilian population.

The conflict has displaced more than 75,000 people.

In a situation in which indigenous people were forcibly displaced because of the disappearance of their land, there were a number of questions regarding their collective rights, land rights and recognition as indigenous people, as they would evidently not be indigenous in relation to receiving countries.

The situation in Darfur has seen the greatest crisis of protection the civilian population has been subjected to forced displacement on an unprecedented scale, as well as widespread physical and sexual violence.

Thousands of people were displaced and we heard brutal tales of rape and murder.

We must prevent displacement from occurring, and end it as quickly as possible.

Kankossatoday blog also talked about the displacement of 30 families in one of the villages

During 2003, approximately 207,607 people were forcibly displaced.

An example of the current fragility of the economic and social situation in Burundi is the recent food insecurity in the northern provinces of the country, which caused new displacements of populations and led to an appeal by the authorities of Burundi for international emergency support.

As prevention and post conflict management were crucial to avoiding population displacement, UNHCR planned to play an active role in the work of the Peacebuilding Commission to address not only the relief to development gap but also the complex needs of societies emerging from conflict.

Violence quickly spread across the state, displacing thousands of people.

The mistreatment of disenfranchised populations in the Philippines is, unfortunately, nothing new. Earlier this year, farmers asking for rice in Kidapawan, Mindanao were violently dispersed by police. And the Tumandok indigenous peoples in Panay Island will be displaced with the construction of a mega dam.

Mindful of the human suffering caused by the displacement of thousands of people due to the loss of homes,

Almost l million Ugandans have been displaced and forced to live in camps for internally displaced persons.

11. Also notes the link, inter alia, between human rights violations, poverty, natural disasters and environmental degradation and population displacement, and calls for redoubled and concerted efforts by States, in collaboration with the African Union, to promote and protect human rights for all and to address those problems

10. Also notes the link, inter alia, between human rights violations, poverty, natural disasters and environmental degradation and population displacement, and calls for redoubled and concerted efforts by States, in collaboration with the African Union, to promote and protect human rights for all and to address those problems

Israel had occupied about 1,000 square kilometres of the Golan since 1967, expelling about half a million inhabitants and establishing 44 settlements inhabited by about 20,000 settlers.

8. Expresses its deep concern at the worsening humanitarian situation throughout the country and the very high number of internally displaced persons in the eastern part and, in particular, in the Ituri region, and urges all parties to avoid further population displacement and to facilitate the safe and voluntary return of refugees and internally displaced persons to their places of origin

In conflict situations, preventing displacement primarily requires political will.

The clashes have also resulted in the displacement of some 3,000 new refugees across the border to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

These acts of violence gave rise to migrations of displaced persons and persons fleeing to Benin and Ghana.

Mindful of the human suffering caused by the displacement of thousands of people and the disrupted delivery of health and social services,

Those crimes include the killing of thousands of civilians and the widespread destruction and looting of villages, leading to the displacement of approximately 1.9 million civilians.

UNHCR had made significant strides towards that goal in 2004 and its collaboration with the Department of Political Affairs and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) had served to highlight the critical link between forced population displacement and international peace and security.

Confrontations between FDN and FNL and search operations by FDN led to the displacement of some 400 families from Isale commune, Bujumbura rural, on 24 August, and the displacement of some 700 families from Musigati commune, Bubanza Province, on 29 August.

A severe drought in 1998 caused the displacement of approximately 100,000 nomadic people from the Registan desert region.

Repeated attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda also led to the displacement of refugees and Ugandans and generated security concerns.

In the worst cases, the land and resources of minorities are taken over by the more powerful sectors of society, with consequent displacement and marginalization of persons belonging to the minorities.

As a result of the ethnic conflict that broke out in the Ituri District in May 2003, many area residents were displaced and impoverished.

Yet, renewed fighting in the eastern Kivu provinces and in the north eastern Ituri district again resulted in the displacement of tens of thousands of people.

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Noting with alarm that the resumption of fighting by the Taliban during the past summer led to further displacement of civilian populations, especially in the provinces of Baghlan and Takhar,

The 2006 and 2007 flooding in Johor has resulted in loss of RM1.5 billion and 18 lives in addition to the temporary displacement of 110,000 people.

Just think of the images of recent storms and floods in the Philippines and Vietnam that displaced and killed thousands, and multiply those horrors manifold.

Landslides resulting from recent heavy rain have left hundreds of families homeless in different parts of Mauritania. After destroying their homes, the landslides left hundreds of families in Kaedi (Southern Mauritania), Makta'a Lahjar and Aleg (Central Mauritania), and Nema (Eastern Mauritania), without roofs over their heads.

Demography

So, we all know about the Narmada river, the tragedies of dams, the tragedies of huge projects which displace people and wreck river systems without providing livelihoods.

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