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Website gives voice to people displaced by Georgia’s conflicts

GENEVA, 30 April 2008 – People forced from their homes by war in Georgia have a new opportunity to make their voice heard. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) today published the life stories of 29 people displaced by Georgia’s conflict at www.idpvoices.org. At this site internally displaced people (IDPs) recount their experiences from before, during and after being driven from their homes by conflict.

13 of these personal accounts have also been brought together in the book A Heavy Burden - Internally Displaced in Georgia: Stories from Abkhazia and South Ossetia, published in English, Georgian, and Russian. The book was also unveiled today in Tbilisi, Georgia. (...)

Full text of the press release
IDP Voices website

Please contact the IDMC in case you would like to receive an electronic copy by e-mail.

The Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), established by the Norwegian Refugee Council, is the leading non-governmental body monitoring conflict-induced internal displacement worldwide.

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Forgotten in the Mountains: Displacement in the Highlands of Papua

The film 'Forgotten in the Mountains' is now available to view on the
Forced Migration Online website. The film looks at the issue of forced
displacement of indigenous Papuans in (West) Papua, Indonesia.

Forgotten in the Mountains:
http://www.forcedmigration.org/video/forgotten-in-the-mountains/

More videos can be viewed at:
http://forcedmigration.org/video/

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