Iraq Humanitarian Crisis: Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)

Introduction This post will focus on Internally Displaced Persons, or IDPs. Understanding the significance of the IDP problem is crucial to understanding the humanitarian crisis occurring in Iraq today. There are currently roughly 3.9 million IDPs in Iraq, 3.2 million of those being displaced since January 2014. This mass forced displacement has cost too…

EPIC Crisis Center: Internally Displaced Persons has gone live! If you want to learn: who are the IDPs of Iraq, the timeline of the current IDP crisis, the types of shelter available to IDPs, and where are they now read and share.