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Refugees in Bosnia

Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Nearly 90 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced at the end of 2021, and over 100 million people are estimated to be displaced in 2022, according to UNHCR.

The number of people who have been forcibly displaced is now more than double the number 10 years ago, and the most since World War II. There are many reasons for flight, including war, persecution, conflict, natural disaster, destitution and repression.

With health and well-being jeopardized, the lives of the most vulnerable can be at risk. The majority are internally displaced people (IDPs), meaning they haven't crossed a border and have stayed within their country.

MSF teams work alongside people on the move at their points of arrival or during the treacherous journeys they undertake, inside and outside their countries.

 
South Africa

MSF calls attention to continuing dangers faced by survival migrants and refugees in South Africa

Press Release 12 May 2010
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

In Ituri, DRC, several thousand isolated civilians are once again caught in the trap of conflict

Project Update 4 May 2010
 
Sexual violence

MSF denounces the sexual violence against migrants travelling to Europe

Report 25 Mar 2010
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

Thousands of displaced civilians in DRC trapped by conflict, wounded unable to reach hospitals in Hauts Plateaux, South Kivu

Press Release 11 Mar 2010
 
Bangladesh

Violent crackdown fuels humanitarian crisis for unrecognised Rohingya refugees Bangladesh

Report 18 Feb 2010
 
Bangladesh

Stateless Rohingya victims of violent crackdown in Bangladesh

Press Release 18 Feb 2010
 
Pakistan

MSF distributes basic living items to 35,000 people displaced by the conflict in Kurram Agency Pakistan

Project Update 16 Feb 2010
 
Afghanistan

Bleak living conditions in Afghanistan's Baghrami market

Project Update 12 Feb 2010
 
Pakistan

2,100 children among displaced families in Munda, Pakistan vaccinated against measles

Project Update 27 Jan 2010
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