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Afghanistan + 24 others
WOMEN COUNT FOR PEACE: THE 2010 OPEN DAYS ON WOMEN, PEACE and SECURITY

Report
United Nations
Executive Summary

Women from civil society and senior UN leaders in conflict-affected countries participated in 25 dialogues on conflict resolution and peacebuilding in June, July and August 2010. These 'Open Days on Women, Peace and Security' signal the UN's commitment to engaging women in building peace and security in this tenth anniversary year of the landmark United Nations Security Council resolution 1325 (2000). These meetings enabled women to share priorities and concerns, and have provided a model for regular dialogue between women of civil society and

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Serbia + 2 others
Success Story: A UNHCR livelihoods project - Self reliance assistance, Serbia

"I could never afford to pay for the training myself. One can always learn more, and earn more" - Zorica Stanojeviæ, a refugee from Croatia

OVERVIEW

Serbia hosts the largest refugee and internally displaced caseload in the region and in Europe.

Currently there are over 200,000 internally displaced persons from Kosovo (IDPs and 86,000 persons with refugee status, who fled Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina fifteen years ago. Despite a certain economic growth after the year 2000, the latest global economic

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Albania + 5 others
Central Europe: Appeal No. MAA66001 Annual Report

Report
IFRC
This report covers the period 01/01/08 to 31/12/08.

In brief

Programme purpose: The focus areas, aiming to alleviate suffering among the most vulnerable, were aligned with Strategy 2010 and the Istanbul Commitments made at the VII European Red Cross Red Crescent Conference, and contributed to the four Global Agenda Goals focusing on disaster management, health and care, organizational development and participatory community development as well as population movement.

Programme(s) summary: Within disaster management, supported by the International Federation the National Societies

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Armenia + 8 others
Protecting internally displaced persons in the OSCE area: A neglected commitment

OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
Warsaw, October 2003
Foreword

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is pleased to be able to present, for the second time, a comprehensive overview of the situation of internally displaced persons in the OSCE region to the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting. The report was compiled by the NRC's Geneva-based Global IDP Project, the leading international body monitoring IDP situations worldwide, in cooperation with NRC field offices.

This overview clearly shows that internal

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The Stabilisation and Association process for South East Europe - Second Annual Report

Executive summary
The Commission's Second Annual Report takes stock of progress since the first report issued in April 2002. It reconfirms the perspective of an even closer relationship with, and ultimately membership of, the European Union and recognises substantial achievements in terms of stabilisation of the region.

The report also reveals shortcomings and slow progress in the reform process in many sectors and in several countries. A theme running through both this report and those of the individual countries is the generally poor record on implementation. The main challenges

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Afghanistan + 10 others
Political will, resources needed to implement human rights standards, High Commissioner tells Social Committee


GA/SHC/3546
Delegates Hear of ‘Lack of Action’ on Early Warning, Conflict-Prevention