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World + 21 others
Yearbook on Peace Processes 2013

2012 proves to have been the most successful in recent times as far as the opening of negotiations and peace processes. 46.3% of the 54 analyzed negotiations were resolved favorably.

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Armenia + 2 others
Improving rapid needs assessments in Armenia, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan

18 June, Yerevan – representatives from United Nations agencies, government and civil society organizations from Armenia, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan are taking part in a two-day workshop on rapid needs assessments in disaster response.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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Georgia must seize opportunity to improve conditions of displaced persons – UN expert

Report
UN News Service

17 June 2013 – A United Nations independent expert today praised Georgia for its commitment to improve the living conditions for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and stressed that the country must continue making advancements to ensure they can live in safety and dignity.

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General Assembly Adopts Text Recognizing Right of Return for Internally Displaced Persons throughout Georgia, Including Abkhazia, South Ossetia

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Sixty-seventh General Assembly
Plenary
86th Meeting (AM)

The General Assembly today adopted, by a recorded vote of 62 in favour to 16 against, with 84 abstentions, a resolution that recognized the right of return for all refugees and internally displaced persons to their homes in Georgia, including Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

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World + 12 others
Alert 2013! Report on conflicts, human rights and peacebuilding

"Alert 2013! Report on conflicts, human rights and peacebuilding is a yearbook which analyzes the state of the world in connection with conflicts and peacebuilding based on four areas of analysis: armed conflicts, socio-political crises, peace processes and the gender dimension on peacebuilding. Focusing on these areas, Alert 2013! offers an overview of the world’s state of affairs and reveals possible trends and dynamics related to the characteristics and evolution of those areas.

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Georgia + 1 other
Humanitarian Assistance Program Helps 10,000 Georgians

On June 6, United State Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Bridget Brink, along with local government officials and regional medical professionals, visited the United States’ Embassy supported Hellenicare Hippocrates clinic and Mobile Medical Units (MMU). The MMU distribute valuable medical equipment and supplies to rural ambulatories allowing rural clinic doctors to better treat their patients living in rural areas with more limited access to care.

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Georgia / Internally displaced persons: follow-up visit by UN human rights expert

GENEVA (6 June 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur Chaloka Beyani will visit Georgia from 10 to 14 June 2013 to examine the overall situation of internally displaced persons in the country, and gather first-hand information from displaced persons and affected communities.

“During my five-day visit, I will follow up on recommendations made by the previous Special Rapporteur in 2010,” said the independent expert designated by the UN Human Rights Council to examine and report on the human rights situation of internally displaced persons around the world.

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Mobile technology for safe communities

anketa#a#non00b#wed1c#7d#pol24ngo2 – sent from the village of Ditsi in the Shida Kartli region of Georgia, this mysterious SMS means that no security incidents have happened in the last week, there was one crossing of the boundary with South Ossetia for celebrating a wedding, the community sense of security is seven on a scale of one to 10, the police patrolled 24 times, and NGOs two times.

Text messages like this one are the basis of a simple community safety network, established by local residents over the past two years.

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Tajikistan + 7 others
Food Security Overview in the Eurasian Region

This paper was prepared for the online-consultation “Food security issues in the Eurasian region: major challenges and G8/G20 initiatives in relation with the regional situation”. This paper is not meant to be an extensive and conclusive study1 and not providing information on the G20 initiatives.

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Tajikistan + 7 others
Launch of the Eurasian Food Security Network

The Eurasian Food Security Network has just been launched with the first online consultation "Food Security issues in the Eurasian region: major challenges and G8/G20 initiatives in relation with the regional situation".

The Eurasian Food Security Network was set up for the Eurasian Center for Food Security (ECFS) as a result of the collaboration between the ECFS, the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO).

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Tajikistan + 5 others
Regional Humanitarian Funding Update - Caucasus and Central Asia, Issue 07 (1 January - 31 March 2013) [EN/RUS]

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Highlights

  • Donors give US$4.4 million in multilateral aid to the Caucasus and Central Asia.

  • Countries in the Caucasus give $155,000 in aid also through multilateral channels.

  • IFRC allocates DREF funding to respond to small-scale emergencies in Kazakhstan and Georgia.

  • Tajikistan Consolidated winter assistance plan for earthquake-affected populations 2012 seriously underfunded.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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World + 55 others
Global Overview 2012: People internally displaced by conflict and violence

Around 6.5 million people were newly displaced, almost twice as many as the 3.5 million during 2011. The conflicts in Syria and DRC were responsible for around half of the new displacements.

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Georgia + 1 other
Abkhazia: The Long Road to Reconciliation

More than two decades after the Soviet Union’s collapse, the three-sided conflict involving breakaway Abkhazia, Georgia and Russia is far from a solution, so all should concentrate on achievable goals, including intensified dialogue on basic security-related and humanitarian issues.

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Georgians poised to deliver independent disaster relief

By Jennifer Brookland

Georgian authorities will resume responsibility for all disaster response packages in one year, according to a timeline agreed on by the U.S. State Department, Counterpart International and Georgia’s Emergency Management Department.

The pre-positioned packages, funded by the U.S. State Department and currently maintained by Counterpart, enable a quick and effective release of relief supplies in an emergency situation.

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Georgia: Severe local storm DREF operation n° MDRGE006

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IFRC

Summary:

On March 24th 2013, strong wind and storms affected the Eastern and Western parts of Georgia.

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UNHCR provides survival help to storm victims

Since 25 March 2013, the UN Refugee Agency is providing its big tents and plastic sheeting to families affected by the heavy rains in Gori and Kopitnari. Following a request from the Ministry of IDPs from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees of Georgia (MRA) and the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia, the Representation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Georgia is helping victims of heavy rains and storm in Gori.