Jean Chung

Life after the Taliban's Fall 2006~2007
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Internally Displaced People in Afghanistan

Children play in the incomplete apartment building in Macrorayon which stopped its construction during the Soviet rule, Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June 19, 2007. 13 families from Shomali Plain moved here since the Taliban time around 1999. In 2006, the main group of refugees under UNHCR's mandate continued to be Afghans (2.1 million), followed by Iraqis (1.5 million), Sudanese (686,000), Somalis (460,000), and refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi (about 400,000 each). In addition to refugees, for a number of years UNHCR has also been helping specific populations of internally displaced people (IDPs). These are people who have also fled their homes because of threats to their safety but who have not crossed any internationally recognised borders. At the end of 2006, the total number of conflict-related IDPs worldwide was estimated at 24.5 million by the Norwegian Refugee Council's Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.

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Children play in the incomplete apartment building in Macrorayon which stopped its construction during the Soviet rule, Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June 19, 2007. 13 families from Shomali Plain moved here since the Taliban time around 1999. In 2006, the main group of refugees under UNHCR's mandate continued to be Afghans (2.1 million), followed by Iraqis (1.5 million), Sudanese (686,000), Somalis (460,000), and refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi (about 400,000 each). In addition to refugees, for a number of years UNHCR has also been helping specific populations of internally displaced people (IDPs). These are people who have also fled their homes because of threats to their safety but who have not crossed any internationally recognised borders. At the end of 2006, the total number of conflict-related IDPs worldwide was estimated at 24.5 million by the Norwegian Refugee Council's Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.