Displacement and dispossession: redefining forced displacement and identifying when forced displacement becomes pillage under international humanitarian law

Refugees, Forced Displacement, and War1

Programmatic Success in High Risk Settings In August 1999, Denver Public Health (DPH) began offering hepatitis B vaccine to adults at high risk in the public STD clinic. Initial funding for the vaccine was first allocated by the Denver City Council. Patients were asked if they had a history of hepatitis B vaccination or disease and questioned about risk behavior; no serologic screening was done...

Assessing the Forced Displacement

The Economic Consequences of Forced Displacement

Currently, nearly 44 million people around the world are forcibly displaced. This displacement is due to a number of factors, including weather shocks in New Orleans and Indonesia and conflict in Afghanistan and Libya. Researchers have posited that the effect of this movement has led to severe impacts on the populations, but due to estimation and data difficulties, little is known about the cau...

[Forced displacement, childhood and adolescence: scenarios regarding socioeconomic stability].

OBJECTIVE Describing and analysing socio-economic stabilisation scenarios for populations which have been forcibly displaced paying special attention to the situation of children and adolescents. METHOD The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) multi-criteria decision-making method developed by Professor Thomas Saaty was used through expert workshops, involving researchers, leaders of NGOs and dis...

“Social Media and Forced Displacement: Big Data Analytics & Machine-Learning”