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Displaced Yemeni girls, who fled their home because of fighting at the port city of Hodeida, are seen in a school allocated for IDPs in Sanaa, Yemen. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Canada must step up to help millions displaced inside their own countries

Megan Bradley, McGill University

Building on our track record of support for refugee resettlement, Canada should stand up for those uprooted within their own countries and unable to reach our shores.
Baby Lurky, whose family was displaced by Boko Haram in the northeast region of Nigeria, sleeps at a camp in Adamawa State. Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde

Nigeria’s constitution holds the key to protecting internally displaced people

Romola Adeola, University of Pretoria

The rise in the number of people fleeing Boko Haram terror calls for urgent amendments to Nigeria's constitution to provide legal protection to the country's millions of internally displaced citizens.

Related Topics

  1. Asylum seekers
  2. Constitutional amendment
  3. Internally displaced persons
  4. Refugee crisis
  5. Refugee resettlement
  6. Refugees
  7. UNHCR
  8. United Nations
  9. United Nations Guiding Principles
  10. UN Secretary General

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