The Danish Refugee Council is one of the few international NGOs with specific expertise in forced displacement. With Israel’s military offensive in Gaza displacing an entire population multiple times — and a slew of other crises uprooting millions — that expertise is needed perhaps now more than ever.
Charlotte Slente, secretary-general of DRC — which manages 37 sites on the ground in Gaza for internally displaced persons — calls it an “extremely dire situation.”
“In Gaza City, which is being bombarded now quite heavily, we have around half a million people staying there, with no possibility of going anywhere, and that is because [humanitarian] sites are overcrowded,” Slente told Devex on the sidelines of the 80th U.N. General Assembly last week.
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Anna Gawel
Anna Gawel is the Managing Editor of Devex. She previously worked as the managing editor of The Washington Diplomat, the flagship publication of D.C.’s diplomatic community. She’s had hundreds of articles published on world affairs, U.S. foreign policy, politics, security, trade, travel and the arts on topics ranging from the impact of State Department budget cuts to Caribbean efforts to fight climate change. She was also a broadcast producer and digital editor at WTOP News and host of the Global 360 podcast. She holds a journalism degree from the University of Maryland in College Park.
