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06 May 2011

Cambodia + 5 others
IDP News Alert, 6 May

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— Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

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IDP News Alert is a bi-weekly summary of selected global news on internally displaced persons, compiled by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) of the Norwegian Refugee Council. The IDP News Alert is also available online.

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Syrian Arab Republic: Civilians flee within and from Syria

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31 Aug 2010

Cambodia + 4 others
International Disaster Response Laws, Rules and Principles (IDRL) Programme (MAA00004): Mid-Year report 2010

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— IFRC
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This report covers the period 1 January to 30 June 2010

In brief

Programme purpose: The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) International Disaster Response Laws, Rules and Principles (IDRL) Programme seeks to reduce human vulnerability by promoting legal preparedness for disasters, in particular with regard to international assistance.

Consistent with Resolution 4 of the 30th International Conference of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies of November 2007, a substantial proportion of the programme's activity is devoted to

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15 Mar 2010

Cambodia + 9 others
New SIPRI data on international arms transfers reflect arms race concerns

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— Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
For immediate release (Stockholm) Concerns about brewing 'arms races' in a number of regions of tension around the world are reflected in new data on international arms transfers published today by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The comprehensive annual update of the SIPRI Arms Transfers Database is accessible from today at www.sipri.org.

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03 Nov 2002

Cambodia + 10 others
UNIFEM press briefing on independent experts' assessment on women, war and peace

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— UN Department of Public Information
Press Briefing
Two independent experts commissioned by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) to prepare a report on the impact of armed conflict on women in the world, told a Headquarters press briefing today there was a need for the review of national and international laws and standards that apply to the protection of women, in order to ensure that those laws recognized the vulnerability of women and their peculiar needs in a war situation.

The experts, Elisabeth Rehn, a former Defence Minister in Finland, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first African

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