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…
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…
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…
Background The Pacific region is extremely vulnerable to climate change and natural hazards which intersects with all domains of human security contributing to migration flows, displacement and relocation within and…
Background In 2018 leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum endorsed the Boe Declaration, which recognizes climate change as the single greatest threat to the livelihoods, security, and wellbeing of the…
Annual Thematic Meeting of the Platform on Disaster Displacement Striving together for addressing displacement due to slow and sudden-onset disasters The Chair of the PDD, the Government of Bangladesh,…
Bangladesh has assumed the Chairmanship of the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) last year from Germany. As part of Chair’s responsibility, the Government of Bangladesh, the Platform on Disaster Displacement…
Background and Introduction to the Workshop The Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) was established on 1 July 2016 to follow up on the work started by the Nansen Initiative and…
In 2015, the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage (WIM) was mandated by the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) to create a Task Force on…
The Platform on Disaster Displacement is collaborating with DISPLACEMENT: Uncertain Journeys to present an exhibition of contemporary art pieces from around the world to highlight disaster displacement during Migration Week in…
