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Internal Displacement in South Asia

Recent decades have witnessed an enormous increase in the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) in South Asia. These are the people who have been forcibly displaced due to violence, war, natural disasters or development projects. The vulnerabili
eBook, English, 2004
Sage Publications India, 2004
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Cover
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Afghanistan: The Long Way Home
Pakistan: Development and Disaster
India: Homelessness at Home
India.s Northeast: Nobody.s People in No-Man.s-Land
Bangladesh: Displaced and Dispossessed
Burma: Escape to Ordeal
Nepal: A Problem Unprepared For
Sri Lanka: A Profile of Vulnerability
Resisting Erasure: Women IDPs in South Asia
Epilogue: International Law on the Internally Displaced Persons
Appendix: The UN Guiding Principles on the Internally Displaced Persons
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Index