Nigeria carries the highest number of internally displaced persons in West Africa, hosting roughly 8.18 million IDPs.This is according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees June 2025 ...

Internally displaced people, referred to as IDPs, have been forced to flee their homes by conflict, violence, persecution or disasters, however, they remain within the borders of their own country. At ...

In Syria, the number of internally displaced people reached a peak of 7.6 million in 2014. However, the number still stood at 7.2 million last year, despite a significant reduction in violence.

More than three-quarters of people internally displaced by conflict and violence by the close of 2024 were living in countries with high or very high vulnerability to climate change, according to ...

Relief: They outnumber refugees 2 to 1 globally, yet no U.N. or U.S. government agency exists to help them, the General Accounting Office notes.

Internally displaced people are torn away from their usual surroundings and social support networks. Families are often ripped apart and relatives may be killed or go missing during flight. The loss ...

Manipur government aims to resettle all 57,000 internally displaced persons by December 2025, offering financial assistance ...

The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) reached a record 71.1 million worldwide last year due to conflicts such as the war in Ukraine and climate calamities like the monsoon floods in ...

Helping internally displaced people is difficult; there is no internationally agreed upon convention about how to aid such refugees. The United Nation’s 1998 Guiding Principles On Internal ...

The number of people internally displaced in Sudan due to conflict could soon exceed 10 million, the United Nations migration agency said on Friday, in the world's largest displacement crisis.

Georgetown University professors collaborated with a committee of the United Nations to produce the first-ever long-term study on internally displaced persons in Iraq. The study analyzed 3,500 ...