Maps, Baseline data, Population, 3W

Tools for humanitarian assistance..."For up-to-date relevant information including maps, contact list, initial assessment form and 3W data...3W maps/reports for 2012 can be found HERE.

The largest body of high-quality reports on the civil war in Burma, especially focussed on the civilian victims - currently over 600 reports dating from 1992.

A useful site focussing on helping Thai people to understand the situation in Burma. The main section is in Thai, with a set of articles from 2005-2007 translated into English...

"SNN is a project focusing on information and media, working to produce news and information about Burma in Thai language. So far, no organization in Thailand is focusing specifically on this arena, despite the fact that Thai and Burma are neighbors and a large number of people from Burma have fled to Thailand....

In this issue: 2015 displacement in Kachin and Shan...
2,000 still displaced in southern Shan...
Winter needs for IDPs in Sumprabum....
Cash assistance following floods...
Providing access to reproductive healthcare...
Ending recruitment of child soldiers.....HIGHLIGHTS:
• Around 100,000 people were newly displaced in Kachin and Shan states in 2015; about 90 per cent have since returned home...
• Almost 2,000 people remain displaced following armed conflict in southern Shan...

This compendium focuses on recent articles related to the development of industrial estates in the major urban centres of Myanmar. Although the clustering of traditional craft industries was common in towns and cities throughout Burma in the colonial era, it was not until the 1950s that modern industrial complexes such as those in the Pyay district of central Burma and in several parts of Rangoon began to take shape.

4 issues a year on landmines, forced relocation, Burma army attacks, IDP health, education and many other issues affecting Internally Displaced Karen People.

Based on experiences gained by the 3 authors through previous research activities and assignments in different parts of Africa and reading of existing literature. Identifies and discusses what is seen as being the most important issues in the ongoing debate about African land rights and land conflicts. Presents and discusses various policy approaches being adopted on the continent to solve land tenure problems and related conflicts.

The flurry of interest around the European refugee crisis, whilst plainly justified, should not have the effect of distracting international attention from equally pressing humanitarian and refugee crises in other parts of the world. As such, this article highlights the extreme nature and scale of gang violence in the Northern Triangle countries of Central America, which has resulted in substantial forced displacement of affected populations.

Este artículo busca mostrar cómo ocurrió el despojo y la concentración de tierras baldías, y el desarrollo del conflicto en Puerto Gaitán y Mapiripán entre 1980 y 2010. A partir del análisis de registros públicos, mapas y entrevistas realizadas en terreno, este trabajo concluyó que los mecanismos desarrollados por el gobierno para desarrollar una reforma agraria no garantizaron seguridad en los derechos de propiedad, desatando constantes ciclos de despojo.

En 1991, cerca de 200 indígenas Wounáan de la comunidad de Curiche en la Costa Pacífica norte se desplazan hacia Juradó, presos del terror por las agresiones propinadas y las amenazas de los narcotraficantes. Estas mismas comunidades en diciembre de 2000 (frente a un ataque de las FARC a Juradó), salen hacia Panamá; cuatro meses más tarde retornan a Colombia.

La acción de los grupos armados al margen de la ley ha generado profundas transformaciones en los territorios donde han logrado ejercer su control. En el mundo rural, una de las principales afectaciones especialmente asociada con la acción de los grupos paramilitares, se dio en el abandono y despojo de tierras mediante de diversos mecanismos de violencia y constreñimiento tales como el desplazamiento forzado.