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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2013
    Myanmar, Global

    Global forced displacement has seen accelerated growth in 2014,
    once again reaching unprecedented levels. The year saw the highest
    displacement on record. By end-2014, 59.5 million individuals
    were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict,
    generalized violence, or human rights violations. This is 8.3 million
    persons more than the year before (51.2 million) and the highest
    annual increase in a single year.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2003
    Myanmar

    In a nation of 50 million people there are estimates that up to 1 million are Internally Displaced Persons (IDP). Despite the relatively recent use of the phrase internally displaced people in the context of Burma, there is evidence that the practices that lead to this displacement have been in place for a long period of time.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Myanmar

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

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2005
    Myanmar

    ...While the nonviolent struggle of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi against the Burmese military government’s continuing repression has captured the world’s attention, the profound human rights and humanitarian crisis endured by Burma’s ethnic minority communities has largely been ignored.4

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2009
    Myanmar

    10,000 Shans uprooted, 500 houses burned in Burmese regime’s latest scorched earth campaign (press release)...

    Map of villages forcibly relocated...

    Summary of villages forcibly relocated...

    Images of the Burmese regime's latest scorched earth campaign

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2007
    Myanmar

    Introduction: "1.1 This ‘Comprehensive Plan Addressing the Needs
    of Displaced Persons on the Thailand/Myanmar
    (Burma) Border in 2007/8’ has been prepared by t
    he Committee for the Coordination of Services to
    Displaced Persons in Thailand (CCSDPT) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
    (UNHCR) Regional Office in Bangkok...
    1.2 The first CCSDPT/ UNHCR Comprehensive Plan was for 2006 and was drawn up through a participatory
    process during 2005. It was presented to the Royal Thai

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2005
    Myanmar

    Karen Internally Displaced Persons wonder when they will be able to go home...

    "Sitting in his new bamboo hut in Ler Per Her camp for Internally Displaced Persons, located on the bank of Thailand’s Moei River near the border with Burma, Phar The Tai—a skinny, tough-looking man of 60 who used to hide in the jungles and mountains of Burma’s eastern Karen State—waits for the time when he can return home.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2014
    Myanmar

    ... This study was intended to find out the benefits of forests, especially for non-wood forest products (NWFPs), to forestdependent local people and the relation to their socio-economic status. Sampling (169 respondents) was chosen to be an equal distribution of household’s economic status. The survey was conducted face to face with structural interviews using both open-and closed-ended questions. The results showed that bamboo and bamboo shoot were considered as the most collected NWFPs in the Bago Yoma region.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 2000
    Myanmar

    ...Under military control, rural Burma's subsistence farming village is losing its viability as the basic unit of society. Internally displaced people are usually thought to have fled military battles in and around their villages, but this paradigm doesn't apply to Burma.

  10. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 2011
    Myanmar

    At least 8,885 villagers in 118 villages in Lu Thaw Township, Papun District have either exhausted their current food supplies or are expecting to do so prior to the October 2011 harvest. The 118 villages are located in nine village tracts, where attacks on civilians by Burma's state army, the Tatmadaw, have triggered wide scale and repeated displacement since 1997.

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