Issues: Internally displaced persons

See also: Humanitarian
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A glance of forced eviction in China

Houses and lands are seized without compensation and given to developers for profit and greed in today's China.

Regions: China

Issues: Freedom of opinion & expression, Housing, Internally displaced persons

Witnessed: 20802 times

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Frost Over The World - Mary Robinson & Darfur - 21 Sep 07

Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and UN high commissioner for human rights, on the crisis in Darfur and what steps must be taken to prevent further civilian deaths

Regions: Chad, Sudan

Issues: Genocide, Internally displaced persons, Refugees

Witnessed: 6534 times

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5th Annual Winter Course on Forced Migration

The Winter Course on Forced Migration is an outcome of the ongoing and past work by the CRG, and other collaborating groups, institutions, scholars, and human rights and humanitarian activists in the ...

Regions: India

Issues: Housing, Internally displaced persons, Refugees

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Violent Evictions at El Estor, Guatemala

The video, released by the pressure group Rights Action, shows how a Canadian mining company recently called in state prosecutors and armed law enforcement officers to move indigenous peoples off land...

Regions: Guatemala

Issues: Housing, Indigenous peoples, Internally displaced persons

Witnessed: 14842 times

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Sands of Sorrow

Sands of Sorrow (1950); On the plight of Arab refugees from the Arab-Israeli war. Dorothy Thompson speaks on the refugee problem....

Regions: Palestine

Issues: Internally displaced persons, Refugees, War crimes

Witnessed: 15001 times

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Refugees Escape Myanmar - 30 Aug 07

Pressure is mounting on the United Nations and South East Asian governments to address human rights violations in Myanmar, while refugees are escaping their country for an uncertain life in Thailand. ...

Regions: Myanmar

Issues: Indigenous peoples, Internally displaced persons, Minorities

Witnessed: 6780 times

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Memory in Lo-Sheng Sanatoriumi

Lo-Sheng Sanatorium is a hospital for lepers, which was build during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan. During the 1930s, leprosy patients were forced to live in the hospital....

Issues: Internally displaced persons, Older persons

Witnessed: 11148 times

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People & Power - Exxon in the Dock - 27 Feb 07 - Part 1

People & Power's Juliana Ruhfus investigates claims that Exxon Mobil, the most profitable oil company in the world, is responsible for human rights abuses carried out by its private soldiers in Aceh, ...

Regions: Indonesia

Issues: Environment, Internally displaced persons

Witnessed: 13114 times

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People & Power - Exxon in the Dock - 27 February 07 - Part 2

People & Power's Juliana Ruhfus investigates claims that Exxon Mobil, the most profitable oil company in the world, is responsible for human rights abuses carried out by its private soldiers in Aceh, ...

Regions: Indonesia

Issues: Environment, Internally displaced persons

Witnessed: 14456 times

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