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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: What you need to know about the world's "Internally Displaced"
Description: One overlooked aspect of the global conversation on conflict, disaster and humanitarian affairs is internal displacement and the plight of internally displaced people, or IDPs. Like refugees, IDPs have been forced from their home by conflict or disaster. But unlike refugees, they have not crossed an international border and are not afforded the kind of legal protections embedded in widely adopted international treaties like the refugee convention. But as my guest Alexandra Bilak a explains, the number of IDPs around the world is actually greater than the number of refugees.  Alexandra is director of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Cen...