This bulletin covers 64 countries over the period April to June 2011 (Q2-2011).1 In addition to looking at changes and trends in staple food prices and the cost of the food basket, this issue also examines trends in fuel prices, terms of trade (ToT) and consumer price index (CPI) at country level.

13 January 2011

Reports of Bangladesh, Belarus, Israel, Kenya, Lichtenstein, Sri Lanka and South Africa to be Reviewed

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, the Committee charged with ensuring that 186 States parties meet their obligations under a treaty that requires them to eliminate discrimination against women, opens its forty-eighth session next week at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The three-week session is scheduled to run from 17 January to 4 February 2011.

States parties to the Convention on the

NOUVELLES DES RéFUGIéS

- Kenya: Les Somaliens sont de plus en plus soumis à des attaques

- Soudan: La diminution du nombre d'enseignants aura des répercussions sur la qualité de l'éducation

- Thaïlande : Le gouvernement revient sur les plans d'expulsion

- Sri Lanka: Les politiques ne s'occupent pas des Tamouls

- Europe: De nouvelles résolutions sur

SOME ITEMS IN THIS ISSUE REFUGEE NEWS BRIEFINGS

1. Kenya: level of service provision insufficient in Kakuma camp

"Service provision in Kakuma camp needs to be scaled up to meet the needs of the refugee population", JRS Eastern Africa Director, Frido Pflueger SJ, told Dispatches on 24 April.

Given the expected arrival of large numbers of Somali refugees and the increasing heterogeneity of the camp population, JRS is actively taking steps to scale up service provision in the camp in northwestern Kenya. While Fr Pflueger SJ applauded efforts to serve

This contribution gives special attention to peace building in Africa, with three-quarters of the total package, US$36.22 million, allocated to six African countries affected by conflict:

Kenya, Uganda, Central African Republic, Somalia, Republic of Congo and Guinea Bissau.

"WFP is deeply grateful for this

Dispatches is a fortnightly e-mail bulletin of the JRS International Office. It features refugee news briefings, information from our people in the field, policy issues, JRS vacancies and spiritual reflections.

REFUGEE NEWS BRIEFINGS

KENYA: CROWDED CLASSES IN KAKUMA CAMP

According to a survey published in June by the UN inter-agency Education Co-ordination Team schools in Kakuma refugee camp continue to experience severe overcrowding. The team carried out the survey by randomly selecting schools in the camp.

The exercise, in which JRS participated,

GOAL currently employs 175 GOALies who work with over 2,500 local staff to implement humanitarian programmes in 15 countries.

GOALies include country directors, project managers, accountants, nurses, doctors, nutritionists, administrative personnel and engineers.

GOAL's programmes target the poorest of the poor and people suffering the effects of war and/or natural disaster.

Funding for these projects comes from the governments of, among others, Ireland, the UK, the USA and the EU, charitable trusts and foundations, United Nations organisations and the general public.