Their numbers might be small, but this is the event that foreshadows the likely mass displacement of people from coastal cities and low-lying regions as a result of rising sea levels.
The mass displacement of people from Mosul seen earlier this week has now slowed to a trickle.
The recent crisis in Iraq comes in addition to other challenges facing Iraq including a mass displacement of population from western Anbar province, the re-emergence of polio after 14 years and an influx of refugees from neighbouring Syria.
Following the disaster on October 8 2005, the mass displacement of people from their homes and into camps, the resultant inadequate access to food and water, the cold weather and the inevitability of many infections have all had an impact on the nutritional status of thousands of children.
The future alternatives are either apocalyptic or unthinkable: mass displacement of Palestinian fighters from Gaza or a bi-national state.
But the consequences of these conflicts were all too familiar: civilians injured or killed; children and women raped and abused; towns and cities razed to the ground; and whole communities forced from their homes, bringing mass displacement up to post-world war two records, at well over 60 million people.
"The CFS has played a major role in the recent mass displacement, because very few children were reported separated from their families or unaccompanied," said Elie Bahati, an AVSI child protection officer.
When a phreatic eruption disrupts a crater lake basin, waves concentrically move outwards from the centre of initial water mass displacement (Figure 5).
Ukraine's conflict forced at least 646,500 people from their homes in 2014, marking the first time Europe has experienced mass displacement in more than a decade, according to the report.
There is little daily discussion of the occupation, or of the mass displacement that preceded it.
