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First Peoples’ Convening on Climate Forced Displacement; a conference in Girdwood, Alaska featuring activists and community leaders from five regions: Alaska, Bangladesh, Louisiana, the Pacific Islands, and Washington State; the convening had roughly 70 participants, approximately 60 of which were UUSC partners, the remainder being UUSC staff.
Location: Aleyska Resort, Girdwood Alaska
Copyright: Property of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Credit: Rob Stapleton
4 August 2016. Gumbo: A newly displaced woman is pictured in Gumbo, on the outskirts of Juba, South Sudan, that currently hosts 8,000 displaced people following the clashes between Government and opposition forces between 8-11 July 2016. The conflict in South Sudan, that started in 2013, forced 2.6 million people to flee their homes.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - www.albertgonzalez.net
~Displacement activity~
My computer is ill - it's crashed around 50 times this weekend, so I decided to back up all my data just in case.
But while waiting for files to zip themselves and cds to burn I couldn't resist surfing Flcikr.
Bad idea.
I lost 3 dvds when they were 3/4 burnt, so I decided to put my meddling hands out of reach of my computer and develop a film instead.
Sergia Galvan is the director of the Women's Health Collective, a
Dominican Republic organisation helping Haitian women affected by the
earthquake, providing health care and counselling to some of the most
vulnerable women in this area.
www.christianaid.org.uk/whatwedo/in-focus/international-w...
2 July 2017. Padding: (Right) Galuak Gaksio, waits his relatives (background) assist Nyanom Gay, 26 years old and mother of 4 children, after being infected with malaria in Padding, Jonglei, South Sudan, on July 2, 2017.
Fighting between Government and opposition forces last April pushed thousands of civilians to displace to Padding and Lankien, both still under opposition control. The massive displacement, that duplicated the population, brought an outbreak of cholera and a serious need of health assistance, drinking water and food distribution among the population, according to the local leaders.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - AFP - www.albertgonzalez.net
First Peoples’ Convening on Climate Forced Displacement; a conference in Girdwood, Alaska featuring activists and community leaders from five regions: Alaska, Bangladesh, Louisiana, the Pacific Islands, and Washington State; the convening had roughly 70 participants, approximately 60 of which were UUSC partners, the remainder being UUSC staff.
Location: Aleyska Resort, Girdwood Alaska
Copyright: Property of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Credit: Rob Stapleton
First Peoples’ Convening on Climate Forced Displacement; a conference in Girdwood, Alaska featuring activists and community leaders from five regions: Alaska, Bangladesh, Louisiana, the Pacific Islands, and Washington State; the convening had roughly 70 participants, approximately 60 of which were UUSC partners, the remainder being UUSC staff.
Location: Aleyska Resort, Girdwood Alaska
Copyright: Property of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Credit: Rob Stapleton
Managing Forced Displacement in Africa
How Collective Efforts Can More Effectively Address the Surge of Refugees and Displaced Persons
Africa hosts more than one-third of the world’s refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs)—many of whom are fleeing ongoing conflicts in Somalia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, Sudan, and the Central African Republic. This growing phenomenon impacts not only those fleeing conflict, but also the host communities and countries who now face complex logistical and humanitarian challenges. A comprehensive response to this problem must seek to address root causes, thereby preventing further displacement, and also find durable solutions for the many millions already displaced.
Human migration is a natural, constant process and contributes to the development of cultures and economies. But when displacement is forced—whether by violent conflict, poor governance, or environmental factors such as natural disasters or drought—the displaced often find themselves traumatized and vulnerable to physical and economic insecurity. And for those who live in refugee camps and host communities, the conditions are as diverse as the issues that drive displacement. That’s why, in acknowledgement of both the challenges of displacement and the leadership roles played by African countries that host refugees, the African Union has named 2019 the year of refugees, IDPs and returnees.
The U.S. Institute of Peace, the African Diplomatic Corps, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars hosted a discussion on forced displacement in Africa. The panel conversation highlighted African policy responses to displacement at the national, regional, and continental level, discuss current and anticipated challenges, and brainstorm innovative approaches. Follow the conversation with #AfricaDayUSIP.
Speakers
H.E. Soorooj Phokeer, opening remarks
Ambassador of the Republic of Mauritius
Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA), opening remarks
U.S. Representative from California
Carol Thompson O’Connell, opening remarks
Acting Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration, U.S. Department of State
H.E. Mathilde Mukantabana
Ambassador of the Republic of Rwanda
H.E. Wilson Mutagaywa Kajumula Masilingi
Ambassador of the United Republic of Tanzania
H.E Mull Ssebujja Katende
Ambassador of the Republic of Uganda
Matthew Reynolds
Regional Representative of the UN Refugee Agency for the United States of America and the Caribbean, UNHCR
Ger Duany
Regional Goodwill Ambassador for the East and Horn of Africa, UNHCR
Nancy Lindborg, moderator
President, U.S. Institute of Peace
Furaha Maombi, 32, helps with a Mercy Corps-facilitated firewood distribution at Buhimba displacement camp.
First Peoples’ Convening on Climate Forced Displacement; a conference in Girdwood, Alaska featuring activists and community leaders from five regions: Alaska, Bangladesh, Louisiana, the Pacific Islands, and Washington State; the convening had roughly 70 participants, approximately 60 of which were UUSC partners, the remainder being UUSC staff.
Location: Aleyska Resort, Girdwood Alaska
Copyright: Property of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Credit: Rob Stapleton
First Peoples’ Convening on Climate Forced Displacement; a conference in Girdwood, Alaska featuring activists and community leaders from five regions: Alaska, Bangladesh, Louisiana, the Pacific Islands, and Washington State; the convening had roughly 70 participants, approximately 60 of which were UUSC partners, the remainder being UUSC staff.
Location: Aleyska Resort, Girdwood Alaska
Copyright: Property of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Credit: Rob Stapleton
Displacement map of woman and scorched earth, various filters and effects, gradient maps, additions of large star and flying saucers overlaid and blended with 'Earth from Space'
The Ruvubu IDP settlement (in Shombo commune, Karuzi province) was set up by the local administrator in 1994. Ethnic Tutsis had taken refuge there the year before, when they were displaced from their upland farms some 20 kilometres away. It was established for 130 families, many of them including widows and orphans. It is near a major road, but far from any urban centre. Some houses have been badly damaged by the rain. Those who can afford to do so rent land to farm in a nearby swamp.
(June 2010, IDMC/Greta Zeender)
Patterns of Displacement by Sarah Silva features the Portuguese tradition of ceramic tile painting with their migrations over the centuries.
Queens University BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) Class of 2025 Art Exhibit
Displaced kids at the Goroimari Camp, Bongaigaon, Assam. These kids posed when they saw me with the camera. They were born and raised in a camp as their parents were displaced by conflict. They have not known any home other than a camp. Or a village or other kids to play with. They have no one but themselves. They are going to be diaplaced again by a highway project. Although the government calls it rehabilitation with money and some other resources, these people are still going to be displaced and deprived of everything including the livelihoods they had earlier.
The Displacement Map can be used to distort Text in Photoshop. The tutorial is here : photoshopper27.blogspot.com/2010/11/displacement-map-agai...
Following 1967 war, Israel annexed East Jerusalem and extended its municipal boundaries incorporating larger parts of the West Bank. Al Nu'man village, east of Beit Sahour, suddenly found itself within the extended Jerusalem municipal boundaries. Overnight the residents of Al Nu'man became “illegal” residents in their own village as the vast majority of them hold West BanK ID and were not given Jerusalem IDs.
The residents have faced a wave of demolitions since then. In 2002, the village of Al Nu'man also started to witness the construction of the Israeli Wall on its lands, which isolates it from the nearby Palestinian communities. There is only one entrance and exit from the village through an Israeli military checkpoint which can only be passed by Palestinians from Al Num'an registered on a list, meaning that the residents from Al Nu'man cannot have visitors from outside the village
Al Shawara Family
Sami Daoud Al Shawawra has three children, one girl aged 4 and two boys aged 6 and I ½ . The family received a demolition order in 2003 on grounds of having built their home without a legal permit. In December 2010, the Israeli authorities came at 5.30am to carry out that order; the Al Shawara family were given 10 minutes only to salvage whatever property they could. The family was still gathering their belongings inside the house when the demolition started.
Since the demolition, the family of five has been forced to live in a tent throughout the winter. They became sick, particularly the youngest child. The mother suffers from depression. The father apart from some livestock, has no gainful employment.
There is no property available to rent in Al Numan, and building outside the village would require a considerable amount of money: “Our right is destroyed..this is inhumane...If I stay like this, I will become crazy. When they destroyed the house, they destroyed our lives. It is miserable, my family tried for days to enter the village but they could not. I need to leave this village and rebuild somewhere.”
For further information on internal displacement in the OPT see
www.internal-displacement.org/countries/opt
© Activestills/Anne Paq
Teaching myself some photoshop tricks. Photo of a mountain range, added the water and boat post process...
"when and till when?"
Trincomalee district -Sri Lanka - to see this on the black backgroud please click
While UNHCR staff is talking to Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in the school where hunderds of families sought refuge from recent hostilities between Sri Lanka government army and the LTTE, exhausted from the heat, a very little sleep and drowned in anxiety, this women could barely stand on her feet.
First Peoples’ Convening on Climate Forced Displacement; a conference in Girdwood, Alaska featuring activists and community leaders from five regions: Alaska, Bangladesh, Louisiana, the Pacific Islands, and Washington State; the convening had roughly 70 participants, approximately 60 of which were UUSC partners, the remainder being UUSC staff.
Location: Aleyska Resort, Girdwood Alaska
Copyright: Property of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Credit: Rob Stapleton
3 August 2016. Juba: Children attend the activities organised by the UNICEF supported NGO, Terre des Hommes, in a Child Friendly Space at the UN Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in Juba. Following the clashes between Government and opposition forces that started in the city on July 8 during four days, thousands of people and many children, had to run away from their homes and look shelter in the PoC.
According to the UN, hundreds of people were killed, many wounded and 36,000 fled their homes after days of intense gun battles between Government and opposition forces that started on July 8 in the capital of South Sudan.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - www.albertgonzalez.net
3 August 2016. Juba: Children attend the activities organised by the UNICEF supported NGO, Terre des Hommes, in a Child Friendly Space at the UN Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in Juba. Following the clashes between Government and opposition forces that started in the city on July 8 during four days, thousands of people and many children, had to run away from their homes and look shelter in the PoC.
According to the UN, hundreds of people were killed, many wounded and 36,000 fled their homes after days of intense gun battles between Government and opposition forces that started on July 8 in the capital of South Sudan.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - www.albertgonzalez.net
A young girl behind a gate outside the “tunnel” in a district of Baku where IDPs live.
(Photo: Barbara Laborde, March 2011)
The Kigoma IDP settlement (in Buhiga commune, Karuzi province) is home to more than 6000 people from three ethnic groups. The original inhabitants were Tutsi and Batwa, and they were later joined by Hutus. It was set up in 1993 by the local administrator, and is on the outskirts of the provincial capital. Some inhabitants walk up to five hours to farm the land they were displaced from, while many others make a living from informal trade and jobs in the service sector.
(June 2010, IDMC/Greta Zeender)