GENEVA, 03 October, 2011– UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres warned today that an increasingly complex international environment is making it harder to find solutions for the world’s more than 43 million refugees, internally displaced and stateless people.

Speaking at the opening of the annual meeting in Geneva of UNHCR’s governing Executive Committee, Guterres said the international community needed to up its collective game to prevent conflict, to adapt to climate change and to better manage natural disasters.

WFP is deeply concerned that the scourge of hunger and malnutrition is on the increase across the developing world, with now over a billion hungry people on the planet. The global economic downturn is exacerbating the impact of the food crisis and increasing food insecurity for the world's most vulnerable people, reversing progress toward the Millennium Development Goals. This threatens human well-being, peace and stability, and puts an entire generation at risk in many countries.

In 2008, the number of people in need

As many as 200 displaced people were murdered in the camp they were seeking refuge in near Lira in Northern Uganda. The attack, which occurred on 21 February, is being blamed on the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a group which is waging a war of terror against the Ugandan government and the people of northern Uganda. Reports indicate that the rebel group surrounded the camp and that many people were burnt to death in their huts, which were

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STATE OF CIVIL EMERGENCY LIFTED IN THE MOLUCCAS (INDONESIA)

The Indonesian Minister for Internal Affairs, Hari Subarno, has announced that the state of civil emergency in the Moluccas has been lifted, in what is seen as a vote of confidence in the province's peace process, reports JRS Moluccas. The Indonesian government's decision to lift the state of civil emergency came into effect on 15 September,