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Nearly 90 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced at the end of 2021, and over 100 million people are estimated to be displaced in 2022, according to UNHCR.

The number of people who have been forcibly displaced is now more than double the number 10 years ago, and the most since World War II. There are many reasons for flight, including war, persecution, conflict, natural disaster, destitution and repression.

With health and well-being jeopardized, the lives of the most vulnerable can be at risk. The majority are internally displaced people (IDPs), meaning they haven't crossed a border and have stayed within their country.

MSF teams work alongside people on the move at their points of arrival or during the treacherous journeys they undertake, inside and outside their countries.

 
Internally displaced people in Kaya, Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso

Violence and severe supply shortages leave people across Burkina Faso in dire need

Interview 17 Oct 2022
 
Baidoa Malnutrition Crises
Somalia

An alarming cycle of drought, malnutrition and disease in Baidoa

Project Update 12 Oct 2022
 
Mozambique: Inside MSF’s relief items kits distributions to newly displaced people in Cabo Delgado
Mozambique

People struggling to survive after five years of conflict in Cabo Delgado

Project Update 5 Oct 2022
 
Migration in the Americas
Central American Migration

Barriers don’t deter people making their way to the United States

Project Update 23 Sep 2022
 
MIGRANT PUSHBACK | Lithuania Belarus Border
Lithuania

Repeated pushbacks cause mental and physical suffering for people crossing Lithuanian border

Project Update 16 Sep 2022
 
Yevhenia Koval, IDP from Kherson regoin
War in Ukraine

The enormous mental health needs for displaced people in Ukraine

Voices from the Field 13 Sep 2022
 
MSF provides medical care for stranded asylum-seekers in the Netherlands
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Project for stranded asylum-seekers in Ter Apel, Netherlands, closes

Press Release 12 Sep 2022
 
Foreigner Registration Centre (FRC) | Kybartai
Lithuania

A “hierarchy of suffering” exacerbates asylum seekers’ mental health in Lithuania

Press Release 30 Aug 2022
 
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

MSF provides medical care to asylum-seekers in the Netherlands

Press Release 26 Aug 2022
 
Dedougou health centre
Burkina Faso

Thousands displaced after escalating violence in Boucle du Mouhoun region

Project Update 26 Aug 2022
 
Camplife/shelters of Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
Rohingya refugee crisis

One million Rohingya remain in precarious conditions five years after horrific violence in Myanmar

Voices from the Field 25 Aug 2022
 
Jean Louis in his house
Haiti

Haitians fleeing deadly conflict are turned away by the US

Project Update 12 Aug 2022
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