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- In the global context, the forced removal of a person from their home or country, often due to armed conficts or natural disaster.
- In the EU context, the forced removal or the evacuation, particularly in response to an appeal by international organisations, of a third-country national or stateless person from their country or region of origin, who is unable to return in safe and durable conditions because of the situation prevailing in that country, who may fall within the scope of Art. 1A of the Geneva Refugee Convention and Protocol or other international or national instruments giving international protection, in particular:
(i) a person who has fled areas of armed conflict or endemic violence;
(ii) a person at serious risk of, or who has been the victim of, systematic or generalised violations of their human rights.
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BG: Разселване
CS: vysídlení
DE: Vertreibung
EL: εκτόπιση/ εκτοπισμός
EN: displacement
ES: Desplazamiento
ET: sundränne
FI: kotiseudultaan siirtymään joutuminen
FR: déplacement
GA: easáitiú
HU: lakhelyelhagyás / lakóhely elhagyása
IT: Sfollamento
LT: perkėlimas
LV: pārvietošana
MT: spostament
NL: verplaatsing / ontheemding / verdrijving
PL: przesiedlenie
PT: deslocação
SK: vysídlenie
SL: razselitev
SV: fördrivning
NO: fordrivelse (b); fordriving (n)
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