these women are i.d.p.'s internally displaced persons although they have fled the genocide in darfur province they have not crossed the sudanese border and are not considered refugees under international law to collect wood for cooking they must risk being attacked by the jantar weed government backed arab militia men who target the sudan's black population. with their heavy demand for wood the sudan six million internally displaced persons and further stress to a landscape already degraded by climate change into certification. internal displacement is a growing problem in iraq an estimated two million civilians have been displaced since the start of operation iraqi freedom i.d.p. camps have sprung up in the outskirts of now jeff baghdad and nineveh many lack potable water medicine and proper waste disposal the real risk of not addressing the environmental problems is that people simply have to leave their homes if they don't have wood to burn to cook with to heat their homes with don't have water to drink t

an estimated two million civilians have been displaced since the start of operation iraqi freedom i.d.p. camps have sprung up in the outskirts of now jeff baghdad and nineveh many lack potable water medicine and proper waste disposal the real risk of not addressing the environmental problems is that people simply have to leave their homes if they don't have wood to burn to cook with to heat their homes with the don't have water to drink they leave and you see massive displacement happening we call it environmental refugees if you will but people are leaving their homes this creates a demand on resources it creates a demand on infrastructure and ultimately displacement undermines the peace process in the vietnam war which the vietnamese call the american war. there is a clash there was a clash between very highly technological society in a largely agrarian society. i think we have a lot of arrogance we thought we were going to go in and take control blow up or needed to blow up and do basically what we wanted. one of the main reasons that i refused to carry a weapon was that i could not

these women are i.d.p.'s internally displaced persons.

these women are i.d.p.'s internally displaced persons although they have fled the genocide in darfur province they have not crossed the sudanese bow.