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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Myanmar

    Highly recommended. Well-organised site. In "list of sources used" are most of the main reports from 1995 bearing on IDPs (though the reports from 1995 to 1997 are missing - temporarily, one hopes) and more Burma pages updated June 2001. Go to the home page for links on IDPs, including the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2007
    Myanmar

    This report is a preliminary exploration of forced migration/internal displacement in Burma/Myanmar in two main areas. The first is the status in terms of international standards, specifically those embodied in the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, of the people who leave home not because of conflict or relocation orders, but as a result of a range of coercive measures which drive down incomes to the point that the household economy collapses and people have no choice but to leave home.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    March, 2009
    Myanmar

    Displacement as a result of conflict and human rights violations continued in Myanmar in 2008. An estimated 66,000 people from ethnic minority communities in eastern Myanmar were forced to become displaced in order to avoid the effects of armed conflict and human rights abuses. As of October 2008, there were at least 451,000 people reported to be internally displaced in the rural areas of eastern Myanmar. This is however a conservative figure, and there is no information available on figures for internally displaced people (IDPs) in several parts of the country.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 2011
    Myanmar

    In November 2010 the first national elections since 1990 were held in Myanmar. While
    the party set up by the previous government and the armed forces retain most legislative
    and executive power, the elections may nevertheless have opened up a window of
    opportunity for greater civilian governance and power-sharing. At the same time, recent
    fighting between opposition non-state armed groups (NSAGs) and government forces in
    Kayin/Karen, Kachin, and Shan States, which displaced many within eastern Myanmar and

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