Three-quarters of the world’s 25 million people internally displaced by conflict are believed to be women and children. This paper is an introduction to the impact of displacement onchildren, the basic principles and mechanisms governing the protection of internally displaced children (IDP children), containing recommendations and further reading.
Professor Alberto Minujin presented Mind the Gap: Inequality and Child Poverty at a UNICEF Innocenti conference in Florence, highlighting how inequalities in survival, education and poverty continue to shape children’s opportunities and why progress must be measured beyond national averages.
