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Sivaprashanthi. Thambaiah ( Shanthi) [Translated by : Sarvarakshani. Thambaiah ( Rakshi) ] Didn’t see my mom’s face Didn’t touch my dad’s ha...

Sarvarakshanthi. Thambaiah [Inspired by a photograph by a SriLankan blogger whose name unknown] It was all like a bad dream Of yester years ...

Mohamed Feroz Pakkeer Mohideen Introduction End of war does not mean end of displacement and its consequential effects. The displaced people...

Geetisha Dasgupta The Gangavaram port in Visakhapatnam was inaugurated on 12 July 2009 with much celebration. The new port, which became ope...

Ishita Dey Walter Fernandes in “Climate Change or Climate Justice in the North East” published in The Assam Tribune argues that the politic...

Ishita Dey Findings of a study by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the Internal Displacement Monit...

Geetisha Dasgupta The Salva Judum (meaning the Peace Hunt) was constituted in Chattisgarh to make way for peaceful acquisition of the natura...

Priyanca Mathur Velath On 18 October, 2009, China revealed an ‘official’ plan to relocate a huge population of people who would be displaced...

Suha Priyadarshini Chakravorty Despite the Obama Administration’s assurance to alter the functionality of the Detention System, not much has...

Chitra Ahanthem As I sit down to write this post on the nature of media reporting on the issues faced by people living in border town of Mor...

Supurna Banerjee Embarking a crowded train from Sealdah on my first ever field visit to Nadia I was in no way prepared for the experience th...

Reviewed by Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury The book entitled The Line: Women, Partition and the Gender Order in Cyprus written by Cynthia Cockbur...

Shivam Vij [A shorter, edited version of this story appeared in Open magazine on 16 July 2009)“Ey pekir Uyghur, oyghan!” (Hey poor Uyghur, w...

Suha Priyadarshini Chakravorty Note: The Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs co...

Compiled by Priyanca Mathur Velath THE history of South Asia is unique in the context of population displacement. People have been pushed be...

BANGKOK: Continuous fighting between Myanmar's junta and rebel ethnic armies in the northeast has driven more than 10,000 refugees into ...

Compiled by Priyanca Mathur Velath COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan government is gearing to re-settle in the next two weeks 44,000 of the nearly 3 l...

S.B.Subba Almost after 18 years of refugee life in the seven refugee camps in two districts of Jhapa and Morang of eastern Nepal, the Bhutan...

In a recently concluded World Refugee Survey by USCRI, millions of refugees have been found to spend from 10 to 60 years -- an entire lifeti...

Lavinia Limon [President, USCRI] Because of the quick action taken by people like you, 36,000 refugees in the Mtabila refugee camp in Tanzan...