In northern CAR, close to 200,000 persons have been displaced between 2005 and 2008 and micro-displacement continues to this date due to constant insecurity.
Mr. Ban notes that Colombia has the second largest population of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the world, with nearly 3 million being displaced between 1997 and the end of 2008, and more than 1 million of them children.
In that area, some nineteen thousand workers in the region were displaced between 1990 and 2013.
Of all black workers who were displaced between 2009 and 2011, just 47.3 percent had found new work of any kind by this January.
In Europe, some of the worst abuses took place in the Balkan region, particularly in Macedonia, where the organisation reported that 140,000 civilians were displaced between March and August.
On Kosovo, the U.N. General Assembly in October recommended that talks begin on practical issues (like trade, energy, environment, health, border facilities, missing persons, return of the displaced) between Belgrade and Pristina, with the E.U. facilitating and the U.S. supporting.
Fighting broke out last week in Nagorno-Karabakh between the Azerbaijani army and the Armenian separatists who have controlled the enclave since the early 1990s, when they came out on top in what was arguably the most violent war associated with the demise of the Soviet Union – an estimated 30,000 people were killed, and a million displaced, between 1988 and 1994.
Perhaps he should see the work of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which recently concluded that 57percentt of full-time wage and salaried workers who were displaced between 2001 and 2003 and had found new jobs by January 2004 were making less than they had at the lost job.
At the same time, Israel has barred Palestinians displaced between 1947 and 1949, and again in 1967, from returning to their homes or receiving restitution for their lost property, making Palestinian refugees the oldest and largest refugee community in the world today.
