By: Ashley Tennessen, Brandon Englert, Shelby Condra, Travis Dicken, Spencer Clark

D i s p l a c e m e n t

Estimated more than 68 million people

displaced globally currently

over 20 million were displaced by

sudden-onset weather

2.4 million people were being annually

displaced

26 million internally displaced people

that were uprooted within their own

countries

annual figure of 144,000 people being

forcefully evicted each year

29 different groups of 25,000 or more

refugees are in 22 nations that have

been in exile for five years or longer

How would you feel if you were displaced

from your home?

According to the Social and Human Science, the

displacement of people refers to the forced movement of

people from their region or environment and job-related

activities. The cause of being displaced is typically because

of war, persecution, or natural disaster. There are typically

two types of displacement: Direct Displacement, which

leads to the actual displacement of people from their

locations and Indirect Displacement, which leads to a loss

of livelihood. This forces the people to leave the home

region to which they are attached to. This hinders the

people because this is where they grew up, and the customs

they are used to.

Who are the people that are displaced?

A person who has been forced to leave their country, that

has crossed an international border and falls under one of

the relevant international legal instruments, in order to

escape war, persecution, or natural disasters is a refugee.

Refugees leave their country because they have no other

choice, but only fear for their own life or safety or that of

their family. Refugees are in search of better living

conditions because of the difficult circumstances prevailing

in the places they originally are from. Refugees also flee

their country when their government will not or cannot

protect them from serious human rights abuses.

“I think it's exactly what we've been

afraid of: the return of one population

and the displacement of another.” -

Paula Ghedini

What do they have to call home?

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DID YOU KNOW?

43.3 million people were forcibly

displaced last year alone

24.7 million people were displaced by

other causes

1% of the worlds entire population make

up the official displaced number

12% of Sudan’s population are displaced

One in every 170 people are uprooted by

war

Women and children make up 80% of all

displaced people

“After 22 years of conflict,

more than one million

people in northern Uganda

remain displaced from

their homes. The rebel

army refuses to sign a

peace deal, and families

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National name: Jamhuryat as-Sudan

President: Lt. Gen. Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir (1989)

Current government officials

Land area: 917,374 sq mi (2,376,001 sq km); total area: 967,493 sq mi (2,505,810 sq km)

Population (2010 est.): 41,980,182 (growth rate: 2.1%); birth rate: 33.2/1000; infant mortality rate: 78.1/1000; life expectancy: 52.5; density per sq mi: 46

Capital (2003 est.): Khartoum, 5,717,300 (metro. area), 1,397,900 (city proper)

Largest cities: Omdurman, 2,103,900; Port Sudan, 450,400

Monetary unit: Dinar

Since 1999 international attention has been focused

on evidence that slavery is widespread throughout

Sudan. Arab raiders from the north of the country

have enslaved thousands of southerners, who are

black. The Dinka people have been the hardest-hit.

Some sources point out that the raids intensified in

the 1980s along with the civil war between north

and south.

Ever since Lt. Gen. Omar Bashir's military coup in

1989, the de facto ruler of Sudan had been Hassan

el-Turabi, a cleric and political leader who is a

major figure in the pan-Arabic Islamic

fundamentalist resurgence. In 1999, however,

Bashir ousted Turabi and placed him under house

arrest. (He was freed in Oct. 2003.) Since then

Bashir has made overtures to the West, and in Sept.

2001, the UN lifted its six-year-old sanctions. The

U.S., however, still officially considers Sudan a

terrorist state.

A cease-fire was declared between the Sudanese

government and the Sudan People's Liberation

Army (SPLA) in July 2002. During peace talks,

which continued through 2003, the government

agreed to a power-sharing government for six years,

to be followed by a referendum on self-

determination for the south. Fighting on both sides

continued throughout the peace negotiations. In

May 2004, a deal between the government and the

SPLA was signed, ending 20 years of brutal civil

war that resulted in the deaths of 2 million people.

SUDAN: A HISTORY OF

TURMOIL

Where are they now?

What can be done About

Sudan’s Displacement

Problems?

The most important problem, the 20 year

civil war, is on its way to being settled. The

U.N. is stepping in and shipping food and

supplies for the suffering public,

unfortunately, the country still suffers from

the after-effects of the brutal war. It seems

as if the only thing that is going to repair

this broken nation is hope, which is very

scarce to the bruised and tattered populace

.

How did she end up so far away

from home?

Woro Fatuma and her family had to flee their

home in Juba, Sudan when she was only 5 years

old due to the fact that the war had finally

reached the capital of Juba, Sudan. Losing more

than 5 years of schooling, it was hard for Woro

to get back into school after her move to

Khartoum, which was a three-week journey

down the Nile River on a barge. She is finally

returning home and plans to re-enroll into

school and finish her education so she can

participate in the up-coming elections.

What is the current situation?

The current situation in Sudan is that, with the

help of the U.N., the nation is finally resolving the

war, and also on its way to becoming a

democracy. Although it is still recovering from

the malicious 20 year war that ravaged the

country and all its inhabitants, and recovering

from being the single largest displaced country,

with over 4 million ran away from their homes,

there is hope for the people of Sudan, with the

help from the rest of the world.

A child who died only a few feet away from the

rationing center in Sudan

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Isn’t About Time for the American Government to Step Up

and Help its Own?

America has take some hard hits in the past, earthquakes in California, ice storms hitting most

of the Central United States, and town flattening tornadoes. We have had many disasters that have

forced people out of their homes or left them with no home. The question now for our government

by people that have been forced to be homeless is “why aren’t you helping us?”

A good example of this took place in

Mapleton, a small town in Iowa, was almost

completely flattened by a tornado on Saturday April

10, 2011. A local in the area, Tamara Adams age 37,

lost her home that day. When asked about the

experience Tamara said “That sound, I’ll never get it

out of my head,” She went on to say “It had a life.

You could hear it breathing and growling.” Tamara

was able to make it to safety, but not before getting

a glimpse of the three quarters of a mile wide beast.

She told that as soon as she started to close the door

to her basement the tornado was ripping the roof off

the store across from her home. When it was over

Tamara got to see the 30 foot tree that had crushed

her home. Forced out of her home by the tornado,

Tamara devastated and now homeless had nothing

to do, but gather up the branches from the

tree that was now resting on a place she once

called home sweet home. A question not

answered, where was her help?

“It had a life. You could hear it breathing and

growling.”

What should the government be doing

for those who are kicked out of their

homes?

The emotional feel

Americans are getting from the Government

when forced out of their homes, whether

it’s by natural disaster or the falling

economy, is the government is not to blame

and they already have lawyers on the

phone. It’s time for the government to step

up and take responsibility for the nation

they have sworn to protect and take care of.

It is suggested that one of the reasons

people aren’t taken care of when they are

forced out of their homes and have nowhere

to go is the government is too worried about

prioritizing the market when their top

priority should be their fellow

Americans that are forced to be

homeless, so what the government

should be doing is rearranging its

priorities.

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Wouldn’t You Want The Help?

Learn More

http://www.omaha.com/article.20110411/news/sol/704119945#mapleton-

grateful-forwarning

http:// candobetter.net/node/249

http://www.IDMC.com

http://www.modernghana.com/blogs/230144/31/displacement-of-people-

and-its-effects.html

http://allafrica.com/stories/200907290821.html

http://www.who.int/environmental_health_emergencies/displaced_people/en