Refugee crises appear to come and go. In 2011, all eyes were on the Dadaab refugee complex in northern Kenya as it received hundreds of thousands of Somalis fleeing famine and conflict. This year, attention has shifted to the refugee exodus from Syria, even though the majority of Somalis who arrived at Dadaab last year are still there.

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• Yemen: Growing humanitarian crisis for IDPs in south

• Sri Lanka: More than 220,000 still displaced

• Chad: Prospects of greater security for internally displaced children and adults

Yemen: Growing humanitarian crisis for IDPs in south

Colombo (ICRC) - Over 2,400 army, navy and air force personnel deploying to Chad, Haiti and Lebanon on peace-support operations have taken part in eight international humanitarian law briefing programmes conducted this year by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

"As part of its universal mandate, the ICRC works with States worldwide to support their efforts to promote awareness of and compliance with international humanitarian law," said Peter Evans, in charge of the armed and security forces file for the

Programme Summary:

The first six months of 2010 were characterized by two major earthquake events in Haiti and Chile that required a massive response effort, leveraging the full range of the Movement's disaster response resources, as well as its global coordination and technical assistance capacities. The response operations both demonstrated IFRC's capacity to scale up quickly through the deployment of a focused and flexible global surge capacity. A record number of ERUs were deployed to Haiti (21), as

Oxfam Internacional, Intermón Oxfam en España, cerrará sus =FAltimos proyectos de ayuda humanitaria en los países del sudeste asiático que en diciembre de 2004 fueron arrasados por un tsunami. Cinco años después, la organización finaliza la mayor respuesta humanitaria de su historia habiendo ayudado a unos 2,5 millones de personas.

Oxfam Internacional destaca que su trabajo

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The European Parliament ,

– having regard to the tenth European Union Annual Report on Human Rights (2008) (Council document 14146/1/08),

– having regard to Articles 3, 6, 11, 13 and 19 of the Treaty on European Union and Articles 177 and 300 of the EC Treaty,

– having regard to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to all relevant international human rights instruments(1) ,

(New York, le 28 avril 2009) - Le Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies devrait imposer des sanctions à l'encontre des gouvernements et des groupes armés qui utilisent des enfants soldats, commettent des violences sexuelles sur des enfants et attaquent des écoles, et devrait encourager de réelles poursuites judiciaires contre les commandants responsables, a déclaré Human Rights Watch aujourd'hui. Le Conseil de sécurité tiendra un débat public sur les enfants et les conflits