They will not become internally displaced persons.

Many children were displaced and homeless for various reasons, without anybody addressing their needs.

At the end of 2004, it is reported about 130,000 persons remain displaced.

Millions may have been made homeless. Those without shelter will die.

They and their host communities need urgent assistance, as do the millions of Sudanese who remain displaced.

Over 7 per cent of the population remain internally displaced, while a third of the entire population need help.

They and their host communities need urgent assistance, as do the millions of Sudanese who remain displaced.

But refugees were out in the streets and were allowed only to get in for a few minutes to put their details on papers and to become a number again.

More than a hundred thousand people remain displaced by the accident, some having lost family, homes, possessions, and even the desire to live.

In addition, arrests of internally displaced persons who spoke to United Nations or NGO representatives have been reported.

Since September 2000, thousands of homes have been destroyed and more than 17,000 people have been dispossessed and rendered homeless.

Despite progress, however, an estimated 160,000 people remain displaced in Afghanistan owing to insecurity or drought in their place of origin.

The disaster affected all alike large and small, strong and weak, rich and poor. They were all at one stroke displaced, dispersed and left with no families.

Thus, the BiH population in 2000 fell under regressive biological type. About 13,6 of the total population in FBiH were displaced persons.

The Committee notes with deep concern information that the State party has internally forcibly displaced populations, targeting in particular ethnic Uzbeks, to inhospitable parts of Turkmenistan.

The number, scale and impact of natural disasters in recent times have increased, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths and over a million displaced and homeless persons.

Sustained wind speeds of 150 miles per hour laid waste the country's social and economic infrastructure and left the population severely displaced, homeless and in a ravaged state of psychological trauma.

In addition, an estimated 400,000 IDPs scattered in 34 urban settlements in Somalia and the destitute urban populations, including returnees, are in chronic need of assistance.

Janjaweed militia attacks on civilian populations in the Darfur region of Sudan caused some 200,000 persons to take refuge in Chad and many hundreds of thousands more to become internally displaced in Sudan itself.

Unfortunately, over the same period a number of protracted conflicts have continued to keep millions of people displaced and in conditions of great insecurity. The conflict in northern Uganda has continued for over 18 years.

At the time, the war in Bosnia was already more than a year old the city of Sarajevo was under siege tens of thousands of civilian noncombatants had already died and hundreds of thousands had been forcibly displaced.

Otherwise, how can we understand the passivity of the international community when faced with such a critical situation as that in northern Uganda, where about 2 million people are internally displaced and where more than 1,000 people die each week a total far beyond the emergency threshold.

Despite these developments, continuing conflict and human rights abuses around the world have prompted new or renewed flight in other areas.

The ongoing armed conflict between Government forces and non State armed groups of the various ethnic minority communities, combined with the perpetration of systematic and grave human rights violations have resulted in significant numbers of people fleeing their homes and becoming internally displaced persons and refugees.

The best part, according to many in the program, was that for each story, they were paid approximately 100 dollars a modest sum for many but a generous payment for those who found themselves both nationless and homeless in a span of months.

More than 2 million people remain displaced from their homes.

In two months, the mountains will get their first snowfall and temperatures will plummet below zero. Millions may have been made homeless.

This year s heavy monsoon rains have wrought havoc in the area, severing road connections, washing away bridges, and rendering over half a million people homeless in these mountains without dwellings, farmlands, moveable assets, or even graveyards.

In the area of housing, the most jeopardized are families and individuals, pre war tenants who occupied other persons' property and then had to leave it without rights to alternative accommodation, regardless of being displaced or domicile families.