The UN High Commission on Refugees was created 60 years ago today to care for European refugees after World War Two. Today, it looks after 43 million people around the world.
Despite a cholera epidemic, 1.3 million homeless, and a volatile political situation, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency will resume deporting Haitians in January.
I speak with Melanie Teff, one of co-authors of a new Refugees International report about the condition of Haiti's IDPs. She paints a very bleak picture of the plight of nearly 1 million Haitians displaced by the earthquake nearly ten months ago.
One year ago, a massive offensive by the Pakistani military against suspected Taliban strongholds in Pakistan's swat valley resulted in over one million people displaced. At the time, this was the largest mass displacement of civilians since the Rwandan genocide. Today, most of the civilians have returned home. But as this video from the UN Refugee Agency shows, there are many--the UN says thousands--who have no home to which to return.
