Researching Internal Displacement is a platform for researchers, practitioners, & people with lived experience around the world. We publish working papers & short pieces (blogs) to advance our understanding of internal displacement. Submit your work: researchinginternaldisplacement.org

1/16.🥳NEW BRIEF: From Researching Internal Displacement and the @lossanddamage Collaboration ahead of #COP29: “It’s Time for Solutions! Addressing #Displacement and Other #HumanMobility Challenges in the Context of #ClimateChange #LossAndDamage”. 🎉 🔗Read it here: lossanddamagecollaboration.org/publication/it…

The RLI is co-hosting this important COP 29 event with the DisasterDisplacement & IDMC, building on the themes of our new brief "It's Time for Solutions", published by Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) and Researching Internal Displacement. Stay tuned for info on our amazing panellists! IOM - UN Migration 🇺🇳 Refugee Law Initiative

So pleased to announce that Carolina Fuentes Castellanos, the Inaugural Head of the Santiago Network for Loss and Damage, will be on our panel, joined by senior colleagues from UNDP & IOM. If you are at COP, please join us! Refugee Law Initiative DisasterDisplacement IDMC Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC)

📢 How will YOU address #DisasterDisplacement at #COP29? 🗒️The PDD has developed a set of key messages and commitments delegations can use in statements and interventions. Read here➡️tinyurl.com/ms7f567t Plus info on key events➡️tinyurl.com/ms7f567tL

📣 IMPORTANT for tomorrow (14th Nov, 8:30 – 9:30): Join a conversation on partnerships and coordination on #displacement and #LossandDamage in Kenya in the context of climate change and disasters. 🥐 breakfast is provided! Check out event details: t.ly/QtQ-j

At COP 29. My heroes these past few years do seem to skew Bangladeshi. So grateful to ⁦the late ⁦⁦Saleemul Huq⁩ and ⁦⁦ICCCAD⁩ . So inspired and moved by Muhammad Yunus. @COP29

1/7. 📢COP 29 WEEK ONE SUMMARY: Here is our summary of what happened under discussion on #LossAndDamage 🔥⛈️🌪️ and the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (#NCQG) during the first week of #COP29. 🔎 🔗Read the summary here: lossanddamagecollaboration.org/link-page/loss…

Video: Can the UNFCCC Loss and Damage Mechanism Help Catalyse Lasting Solutions to Displacement in the Context of Climate Change? Was pleased that our COP RLI event & brief were so well received. Thanks to our panelists and partners. DisasterDisplacement IDMC Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC)

"A Place to Call Home: Securing Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced People in South Sudan and Somalia" Topical new Working Paper by Abi Parr critiques approaches to addressing displacement in these two nations Refugee Law Initiative researchinginternaldisplacement.org/working-papers…

1/18. ⚠️USEFUL INFO: The new COP29 Azerbaijan Presidency text (22/11/2024) for the New Collective Quantified Goal on #ClimateFinance (#NCQG) is out at #COP29 🤯. 🚫Here are 5⃣ reasons why this is not a good text and what we need to see instead! ✅

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1/20. 😭At #COP29 a decision on a completely inadequate 🚫⚖️ New Collective Quantified Goal on #ClimateFinance (#NCQG) of only US$300 billion a year has been adopted under extremely contentious circumstances with India 🇮🇳, Bolivia 🇧🇴 and Nigeria 🇳🇬 saying that they object to its

RID's timely piece from Vanuatu highlights the potential of the ICJ's Advisory Opinion to advance international law on climate mobility. Oral hearings on the legal obligations of States start Dec 2. researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces/r… Vanuatu UN UN Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu & Vanuatu Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change Pacific Islands Climate Action Network (PICAN) Refugee Law Initiative

Overcoming structural inequalities in cities through building empathy between marginalised groups and planners. It is possible and tackles major injustices. OA at npj Urban Sustainability. w Bangladeshi colleagues Lucy Szaboova Ricardo S. de Campos University of Exeter News nature.com/articles/s4294…

CALL FOR PAPERS - "Refugee Law and Forced Migration Studies: Debates, Interactions and Futures’’, 15th Anniversary Conference, 2 - 4 June 2025 DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: MONDAY 27 JANUARY 2025 rli.sas.ac.uk/rli-annual-con… This year’s dedicated conference theme will have a focus on

Fascinating new @RID blog by Elmira Muratova examines how the Crimean Tatar ‘grand narrative’ of prolonged suffering and multiple forced displacements at the hands of Russia has shaped Crimean Tatar identities, memories and sense of belonging. researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces/d… Refugee Law Initiative

New @RID blog on Afghan IDPs shows how prolonged conflict has eroded resilience strategies rooted in traditional culture. Lacking institutional support, many IDPs resort to harmful survival strategies, affecting wellbeing & the ability to cope. ment.org/short_pieces/p… Refugee Law Initiative

Insightful Researching Internal Displacement blog by Sarah Edgcumbe calls attention to the lack of sustainable reintegration pathways for internally displaced Iraqi Gypsies and Bedouin. Long-standing discrimination and inadequate humanitarian efforts are to blame. researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces/c… Refugee Law Initiative

Fascinating new piece on the government of Azerbaijan's "Great Return" program looks at the progress and remaining challenges of the resettlement of internally displaced Azerbaijanis following two wars with Armenia. Link: researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces/p…