As Sudan’s war spills into the Central African Republic, UN envoy Valentine Rugwabiza warns against an early peacekeeper exit. A June 30 attack on Am-Dafock, on the Sudan border, displaced 17,000 civilians. Read more below: news.un.org/en/story/2026/10…

NEW DI OP-ED: The Forgotten Women of the Congo: Uprooted by Conflict, Displaced from the World’s Attention Conflict uproots women twice—first from their homes, and then from the world’s attention. In this new Displaced Voices op-ed, Jordan Magee examines the escalating crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where armed conflict and mass displacement expose women and girls to sexual violence, exploitation, hunger, unsafe journeys, insecure camps, and severely limited healthcare. The scale is devastating: tens of thousands of sexual-violence cases have been documented, with approximately one-third of the victims under 18. In North Kivu alone, Médecins Sans Frontières treated nearly 40,000 women for sexual violence in 2024. Behind every statistic is a survivor facing physical trauma, social stigma, interrupted education, poverty, and an uncertain future. The international community must ensure that displaced Congolese women and girls are not treated as an afterthought. They must be seen, heard, protected, and supported through survivor-centered healthcare, psychosocial assistance, legal protection, education, and pathways to economic self-reliance. Read more: displacedinternational.org/t… #DRC #DisplacedWomen #ForcedDisplacement #EndGBV #WomenPeaceSecurity @UNWomen @UNFPA @UNICEF @UNHumanRights @MONUSCO @UNOCHA_DRC @UNHCR_DRC @IOMinDRC @MSF @Presidence_RDC

The UN warns the strongest El Niño on record could leave 50M people facing increased hunger. For displaced families, often on flood-prone land, climate shocks compound existing crises. DI advocates for early action, not just emergency response. Read more below: news.un.org/en/story/2026/10…

NEW DI OP-ED - Legacies of Displacement: The Circassians of Turkey More than 160 years after their mass expulsion from the North Caucasus, Circassians continue to carry the consequences of forced displacement across generations. In this new op-ed, Joshua Marsh examines the Circassians’ 1864 exodus, their resettlement across the Ottoman Empire, and the development of Turkey’s Circassian community—the world’s largest. Despite remarkable resilience, assimilation, urbanization, language loss, barriers to return, and limited recognition of historical injustice threaten their cultural heritage. The article calls for expanded Circassian-language education, stronger protection of endangered languages and traditions, greater recognition of the 1864 expulsions, and fewer barriers to cultural exchange and voluntary return. Displacement is not only the loss of home. When history remains unrecognized and languages disappear, it can also mean the gradual loss of identity, memory, and belonging. Read more: displacedinternational.org/l… Support DI’s displaced-led work: displacedinternational.org/d… #Circassians #ForcedDisplacement #CulturalHeritage #EndangeredLanguages #Türkiye @UNESCO @UNHumanRights @Refugees @UNmigration @UNHCRTurkiye @MFATurkiye @TCKulturTurizm @Europarl_EN @coe

DI STATEMENT: DO NOT RETURN AFGHANS TO DANGER Displaced International fully endorses the warning issued by UN human rights experts and is even more alarmed by reports that EU Member States are deporting—or preparing to deport—Afghans to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s human-rights situation remains dire. Women and girls face widespread and systematic gender persecution, while minorities, human-rights defenders, journalists, former security personnel, public servants, and other vulnerable groups risk torture, arbitrary detention, extrajudicial killing, and other grave abuses. The UN experts reaffirm that non-refoulement prohibits returns to such dangers, requires individualized risk assessments and due process, and cannot be circumvented through diplomatic assurances. DI calls on all states—especially European states—to halt involuntary returns to Afghanistan, preserve access to asylum, and expand safe and lawful protection pathways. Deportation arrangements with the Taliban must neither endanger Afghans nor normalize its system of repression. “Europe cannot condemn the Taliban’s gender persecution and other gross abuses while returning Afghans to the very coercive system they fled. Non-refoulement is a binding legal obligation—not a policy option that can be discarded for domestic political convenience. All states, especially European democracies founded on human rights and the rule of law, must halt involuntary returns, conduct rigorous individualized protection assessments, and never send an Afghan to persecution, torture, arbitrary detention, or death.” — Ambassador Ashraf Haidari Founder and President, Displaced International Read and share the UN experts’ statement: ohchr.org/en/press-releases/… Related DI advocacy: Displaced International Statement on Germany’s Deportation of Afghan Refugees to Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan displacedinternational.org/d… Petition to Halt the Mass Forced Returns of Afghan Refugees from Iran and Other Countries displacedinternational.org/p… Afghan Refugees Are Not a Political Tool displacedinternational.org/a… #Afghanistan #NonRefoulement #RefugeeRights #ForcedDisplacement #HumanRights @UNHumanRights @UN_SPExperts @SR_Afghanistan @Refugees @UNmigration @EU_Commission @EUHomeAffairs @Europarl_EN @EUCouncil @coe @EU_UNGeneva @eu_echo @EUatUN @EUCdAtoAFG @EURightsAgency @MAshrafHaidari @BarhamSalih @NRC_Egeland