- Sudan Claims 270,000 Displaced from Darfur Return 'Voluntarily' (November 10, 2004)
...NAIROBI, Nov 9 — A Sudanese minister claimed that more than 270,000 people displaced by the conflict in Darfur had gone home "voluntarily" and that the sit... - Refugee Count Inflated by Taliban (February 16, 2002)
...lly inflated the number of people living in Afghanistan's largest camp for displaced people, according to a new survey by relief officials. The population o... - Sudan's Darfur War Still Ongoing (February 26, 2004)
... for humanitarian aid and to start an operation to assist the many persons displaced by the warfare. Until now, however, the UN and international humanitarian... - Rebels Massacre 192 in Lira Camp, Uganda (February 23, 2004)
...rebels, camouflaged in Amuka militia uniform, attacked Barlonyo Internally Displaced Persons' Camp late on Saturday, burning huts and firing on people with ass... - Darfur Slides (November 7, 2004)
...Americans began voting, Sudanese police and soldiers arrived at a camp for displaced people in South Darfur. They set fire to huts, beat people with trunch... - Guant·namo Becoming Terrorist Central (January 20, 2002)
...ational Organization of Migration, the agency charged with registering the displaced in Herat. Mira Hamza Mahmadi, 35, walked for six days with his family o... - Counting the Dead (January 29, 2003)
...who may go to Kuwait, Syria, Jordan, or Turkey. Another 2 million could be displaced inside the country. The UN report makes no estimate of likely Iraqi war... - UN Urges Global Action on Darfur (April 4, 2004)
...ecurity Council on Friday. Hundreds of thousands of civilians have been displaced in the fighting, with more than 100,000 fleeing across the border into nei... - Sudan, Southern Rebels a Step Closer to Ending 21-Year War (January 1, 2005)
...d, mainly because of starvation and disease, and about 4 million have been displaced. Those who helped negotiate the peace know that it will be even harder... - UN Prepares for Huge Iraqi Casualties (January 7, 2003)
...tance, the UN estimates. There could be another two million internally displaced people. Relief agencies would find it very hard to offer them aid, if figh... - African Union Plans To Deploy Peacekeeping Force In Darfur (August 4, 2004)
... explained. He said the force could be used to protect AU observers and displaced civilians returning to their homes in Darfur. Discussions with Nigeria... - Aid Agencies Cut Programs in Afghanistan Amid Funding Problems (May 7, 2002)
...tion for Migration said it was suspending programs to transport internally displaced people back to their homes and provide them help to get re-established in... - Activists Arrive to Probe Cease-Fire Violations (January 6, 2003)
... look into the plight of villagers affected by the fighting and reports of displacement of villagers. "It's daring but we need to do this," organizer Gus Micla... - Liberia Faces Human Disaster as Battles Rage (July 24, 2003)
...t to commit soldiers. Away from the immediate danger of flying bullets, displaced Liberians struggled without food, clean water or adequate shelter from pel... - WTO Proposal Said To Threaten Food Aid Programs (July 27, 2004)
...not be used "as a mechanism for surplus disposal and to prevent commercial displacement." Coalition for Food Aid Executive Director Ellen Levinson, however, sa...
Displacement
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
One meaning of displacement is a vector quantity which expesses the length and direction of a straight line from one place to another (as opposed to the scalar quantity distance which expresses only the length). The SI unit for either distance or displacement is the meter.
Another group of meanings of displacement is related to the measurement of a volume. The displacement of a ship is its weight, which is directly related (via Archimedes' Principle) to the amount of water it displaces when it floats. The displacement of an Otto or Diesel engine is the total amount of air it can draw in during one complete engine cycle; in a piston engine, this can be calculated by multiplying the number of cylinders by the area of a piston by the length of the stroke.
A third meaning of displacement, derived from the second, is a measure of shipping capacity. A ship's size is reported in the number of long tons of water it displaces. See dead weight tonnage.