Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement
2013
May
10
Past Event
Mitigating Natural Disasters, Promoting Development: The Sendai Dialogue and Disaster Risk Management in Asia
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Washington, DC
2013
May
7
Past Event
Displacement and Migration Policies: Exploring the Interconnections
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Washington, DC
When you talk to people [of the Pacific nations of Kiribati and Tuvalu] they may say 'this is a beach or this used to be a piece of land that I play on as a kid but now you can see at high tide the water is encroaching and it's effectively under water.'
Perhaps three million people, 10 percent of Iraq's population, remain displaced - and forgotten.