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News, Events, Publications about Displacement and Migration

  • 10-23-2023

    IPI MENA and Key Players Call on the International Community to Ensure Accountability for Abuses against Migrants

    Government officials, diplomats, private sector representatives, human rights institutions and key players gathered on October 24th to call upon international organizations, NGOs, global law organizations, and other stakeholders to work together to create resilient communities that work in tandem with security dimensions of executive and judicial organizations to end the intolerable human rights violations suffered […]

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    Displacement and Migration
  • Issue Briefs 11-29-2018by Alice Debarre, Archibald Henry, and Masooma Rahmaty

    Reaching Internally Displaced Persons to Achieve the 2030 Agenda

    This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, an international framework that authoritatively restates the rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs). This presents an opportunity to put the plight of IDPs back on the radar of the international community. At the same time, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development presents […]

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    Displacement and Migration, Humanitarian Affairs, Sustainable Development
  • Panel Discussions 07-17-2018

    Reaching Internally Displaced Persons to Achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

    Meeting the needs of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)—people who have been forced from their homes but are still within their national borders—is essential to the successful fulfillment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), participants at an IPI July 17th high-level event said.“For many, many IDPs, once they enter displacement, and it’s multiple displacement; […]

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    Displacement and Migration, Humanitarian Affairs, Sustainable Development
  • Panel Discussions 09-18-2017

    Syrian Teenage Refugee: “I Carried with Me My Hope, and I Carried With Me My Books”

    Muzoon Almellahan was forced to flee Syria in 2013, to spend three years in crowded refugee camps in Jordan before being resettled with her family in the British city of Newcastle, where she is now a high school senior taking university preparatory courses. “Leaving Syria, my dad told me I couldn’t bring everything and only […]

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    Displacement and Migration, Humanitarian Affairs, Youth
  • Panel Discussions 09-18-2017

    IPI Chair: “Mayors Need Global Engagement, and the Globe Needs Mayoral Engagement”

    IPI was the scene on September 18, 2017 of a policy forum opening the annual Global Mayors Summit, where international mayors presented local and city-level solutions to help in developing two separate but related compacts on the treatment of migrants.The compacts, to be signed next year, were created during last year’s UN Leaders Summit to […]

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    Cities, Displacement and Migration, State-Society Relations
  • Panel Discussions 05-23-2017

    Bilak: “Political Will” Needed to Slow Growth of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)

    “We need far more political will and far more investment,” said Alexandra Bilak, Director of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), discussing the conclusions of her organization’s new report at an IPI event May 23rd on “Refocusing Attention to the Plight of IDPs.”“Not just humanitarian investment,” she said, “we need investment across the board.”Pointing out […]

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    Displacement and Migration
  • Conferences 05-10-2017

    Mass Migration Topic of 2017 Vienna Seminar

    Because of war, poverty, and climate change, mass human mobility has become a fundamental feature of our time, and is testing the limits of the multilateral system, presenting extraordinary challenges for countries of origin, transit, and destination. While migration has been a feature of human history since its beginning, and societies around the world have […]

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    Displacement and Migration
  • Policy Papers 04-25-2017by Liska Wittenberg

    Managing Mixed Migration: The Central Mediterranean Route to Europe

    Every summer since 2014 has seen an increase in the number of refugees and migrants risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Italy and Malta. This increase in migration is having a wide-ranging impact on countries of origin, transit, and destination, creating new and complex challenges for governments, humanitarian agencies, the European Union, […]

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    Displacement and Migration
  • Speaker Events 11-01-2016

    UNRWA Head: Need to Resolve Conflict, Not Just Manage It

    Pierre Krähenbühl, the head of the UN agency responsible for a Palestinian population that has soared from 750,000 people at its inception in 1950 to five million today, said that it was no longer enough to focus on managing the festering crisis but necessary now to try to resolve it.“Surely, this is a time to […]

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    Displacement and Migration, Humanitarian Affairs
  • Policy Papers 10-20-2016by Alexander Casella

    Managing the “Boat People” Crisis: The Comprehensive Plan of Action for Indochinese Refugees

    Spanning a period of twenty-one years, the Vietnamese “boat people” exodus was the last major refugee crisis of the Cold War. The international response agreed on in Geneva in 1979 was in line with Western Cold War values, but by 1988 it had begun to unravel. The new international response took the form of the […]

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    Displacement and Migration
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    May 12, 2025 by Evyn Papworth

    Experts have highlighted that the Latin America and Caribbean region is unique in that several countries’ care policies are situated within their gender equality policies (encompassing a root cause approach) rather than being siloed within economic and poverty reduction policies. Recognizing the vital role of care work and transforming care systems to change the unequal distribution of labor is critical to addressing the root causes of gender inequality.  The post Linking Feminist Foreign Policy and the Care Economy in Latin America: Bringing the Local to the Multilateral appeared first…

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    Governments worldwide have incorporated…

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    How should we assess Trump’s peace diplomacy? And what can Europe and Ukraine do to position themselves strategically in the diplomatic battle over Ukraine’s and Europe’s future? The post Making Peace Great Again? The Challenges and Potentials of Trump’s Approach to Peace Diplomacy appeared first on IPI Global…

    Analysis, diplomacy, peace processes, Trump, ukraine

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About the International Peace Institute

The International Peace Institute is an independent, non-profit organization working to strengthen inclusive multilateralism for a more peaceful and sustainable planet. Through its research, convening, and strategic advising, IPI provides innovative recommendations for the United Nations System, member states, regional organizations, civil society, and the private sector. With staff from around the world and a broad range of academic fields, IPI has offices facing United Nations headquarters in New York.

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