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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