COAL Prize 2019 Finalists Announced
This year, the Platform on Disaster Displacement has collaborated with the COAL Prize to amplify the voices of artists from all over the world on the theme 'Climate, Disasters and…
Secretary-General Forms High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement to Address Millions of Persons Internally Displaced by Violence, Natural Disasters
The following statement was issued on 23 October 2019 by UN Secretary‑General António Guterres. Statement first published on the UN website. Photo © IOM/Amanda Nero. Today marks the tenth anniversary…
Disaster Displacement at the ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment
Geneva, Switzerland 25 June 2019 – The side-event on Addressing Internal Displacement Associated with Disasters and Conflict: Planning for the Long Haul took place in the margins of the United…
Task Force on Displacement – a two-year workplan
Geneva, Switzerland, 1-2 July 2019 - Members of the Task Force on Displacement (TFD), including UNFCCC Executive Committee members from a number of regionally diverse countries, international organizations, a civil…
France takes over the Chairmanship of the Platform on Disaster Displacement
Geneva, Switzerland, 1 July 2019 - The Government of Bangladesh held its last Steering Group meeting as Chair of the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) and passed on the baton…
Cyclone Idai survivors struggle to rebuild devastated communities
By Charlie Yaxley, Peter Holmes à Court and Vania Turner in Buzi, Mozambique. Article first published on UNHCR's website on 3 April 2019. Photos © UNHCR/Alissa Everett. Along a main road…
Governments meet in Fiji to address displacement caused by disasters and climate change in Pacific Island States
Suva, Fiji, 27 March 2019 - Participants from governments, the European Union (EU), UN agencies and civil society opened a two-day consultation today to address the risk of displacement associated…
UNHCR prepares to send aid to Cyclone Idai survivors in Zimbabwe
By Zinyange Auntony in Chipinge, Zimbabwe, and Catherine Wachiaya in Nairobi, Kenya, Article first published on UNHCR's website on 25 March 2019. Photos © UNHCR/Zinyange Auntony. UNHCR, the UN Refugee…
Experts Meet to Scale up Efforts to Tackle the Challenge of Climate Change Displacement
Bogis-Bossey, 15 May 2018 – Stakeholders from all over the world are gathered in Switzerland on 14 and 15 May to contribute to the work of the United Nations Framework…
Pacific Region Discusses Links between Human Mobility, Environment and Climate Change
Suva – IOM, the UN Agency for Migration, in collaboration with the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD), has organized a regional capacity building workshop for Pacific Islands on "Human Mobility…
