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70.8 million displaced people

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Here are the crises that forced the most people to flee in 2018

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The world’s most neglected displacement crises

Every year, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) publishes a list of the ten most neglected displacement crises in the world. This is the list for 2018.

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Sahel - The world’s most neglected and conflict-ridden region

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We assisted 8.5 million people last year

With the help of our supporters, the Norwegian Refugee Council provided assistance and protection to 8.5 million refugees and people displaced in their own country in 2018, spread over 31 countries.

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The Norwegian Refugee Council is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across 31 countries, where we help save lives and rebuild futures.

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Information session on contraception and family planning at a health facility in Macharote, Mozambique. UNFPA with support from NORCAP expert, Sabine Nana, has set up tents for sexual and reproductive health programs at the health facility.
(Photo: NORCAP/Oda Lykke Mortensen)

Mozambique | 27. Jun 2019

Protecting people from gender-based violence

NORCAP experts warn that a long-term approach is needed to address gender-based violence in Mozambique. Three months after Cyclone Idai, humanitarian agencies are scaling down efforts in the affected areas, but the work is far from over.

27. Jun 2019

Death rates and displacement will rise in Central America without urgent global support

Extreme violence, insecurity and poverty have left over a million people in dire need in the North of Central America. The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has warned that death rates and displacement will continue to rise, and humanitarian agencies will be forced to close if the international community do not ramp up efforts to support vulnerable people across the volatile region.

Portrait of a displaced woman at one of the unformal sites hosting displaced families in Maiduguri, Northeast Nigeria. Credit: Hajer Naili

Africa | 27. Jun 2019

Humanitarian emergency at unprecedented level in Sahel

Dakar, 27 June 2019 - UN aid agencies and NGOs warned today that surging armed violence in the Sahel has propelled forced displacement and humanitarian emergency to unprecedented levels. They called for stepped-up support and greater efforts to address the causes of the region’s crises.

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Longreads

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A sixteen-year-old’s flight from IS-group to Norway

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Rape as a weapon of war

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Annual report for 2017

Reaching more communities in crisis

Suweba is 35 years old. Thirteen days after fleeing her hometown with her four children, she gave birth to a baby girl. Her husband remained behind when insurgents entered her hometown to ask them to leave. Since then, she hasn’t spoken to her husband and doesn’t know whether he is alive or dead.

“He said that he will join us. He hasn’t come yet. I am here alone with 5 children. We eat only once a day. I already ate this morning and I am not sure about tonight. Right now, two of my children are out begging to hopefully buy some food. I breastfeed my baby but I myself have not enough to eat.”
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Credit: Hajer Naili/NRC

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Nigeria

Beyond Boko Haram, civilians are suffering

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70.8 million reasons why you should support refugees

For Fatima, since the establishment of protection committees in the city of Dekoa, positive changes have been observed in the behavior of its neighbors. "After the community dialogue organized by the protection committees, we are very well here now. We are no longer afraid because there is a very good cohabitation between us, "said Fatima.
Since 2016, the Norwegian Refugee Council, with the support of its partner for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO) of the European Union, has been helping the community of Dekoa to coexist peacefully. NRC organizes community dialogues for good coexistence between the host community and the returnees.
Photo: Chanel Igara/NRC

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Central African Republic

Rebuilding broken communities after a conflict

Opinions

Global | 22. Jan 2019

Do not criminalise aid work

Global | 10. Jan 2019

Three crises we cannot ignore in 2019

Syria | 04. Oct 2018

World powers must choose peaceful negotiations to avoid an unprecedented disaster in Idlib

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Midwife Kristin Næss Andresen and health expert Nada Hamza working together to build capacity on women's and children's health in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh. (Photo: Ingrid Prestetun/NRC)

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