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01 Sep 2004

World
Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Desert Locust Ground Control

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— Food and Agriculture Organization

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The objective of this document is to give concise instructions for good insecticide application against the Desert Locust. The instructions focus on:

- ULV insecticide spraying
- ULV spray equipment
- Techniques for safe and efficient operations.

Based on the FAO Desert Locust Guidelines, these instructions are intended for use by the field staff who are involved in Desert Locust operations (including Locust Officers and technicians) in order to help them to avoid dangerous, ineffective or wasteful control operations.

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01 Sep 2004

World
Hunger in Their Wake: Inside the Battle Against the Desert Locust

Report

— Food and Agriculture Organization

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In this document, small-scale farmers and herders, technical experts and government officials explain in their own words what is at stake for them, their communities and their countries during the worst Desert Locust upsurge in more than 15 years. The following topics are discussed:

- Economic, humanitarian concerns behind aid appeals
- Teamwork and technology, seven days a week
- Locust's impact on poverty and hunger
- Research targeting biological controls.

The document is the result of an FAO Information

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01 Sep 2004

World
Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Desert Locust Aerial Survey and Control

Report

— Food and Agriculture Organization

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The objective of this document is to give concise instructions for effective and safe survey and control operations against the Desert Locust using aircraft. The instructions focus on:

- Aerial survey operations
- Aerial spraying of ULV insecticides
- ULV aerial spray equipment
- Techniques for safe and efficient operations

Based on the FAO Desert Locust Guidelines, these instructions are intended for use by the field staff who are involved in Desert Locust aerial operations (including Locust Officers and pilots)

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01 Sep 2004

World
Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Desert Locust Ground Survey

Report

— Food and Agriculture Organization

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The objective of this document is to give concise instructions for effective and safe ground survey operations against the Desert Locust. The instructions focus on:

- Survey equipment
- Survey types and methods
- Data collection and reporting
- Using eLocust and GPS.

Based on the FAO Desert Locust Guidelines, this document is intended for use by the field staff who are involved in Desert Locust monitoring to help them avoid dangerous, ineffective or wasteful operations.

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01 Sep 2004

World
Mise en Oeuvre de l'Action Concertée Face aux Situations de Déplacement Interne - Directive pour les Coordinateurs Humanitaires et/ou Résidents et les Equipes de Pays des Nations Unies

Report

— Inter-Agency Standing Committee

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Ce document fournit les directives et les outils nécessaires pour mettre en œuvre une action concertée plus efficace, transparente et exhaustive. Le document est divisé de la manière suivante :

- Rôles et responsabilités au niveau des sièges
- Rôles et responsabilités sur le terrain
- Mise en œuvre des responsabilités du CH et/ou CR et de l'équipe de pays
- Elaborer une Stratégie de Réponse pour les personnes déplacées
- Annexe I: « Strategy checklist »
- Annexe II : Liste des activités
- Annexe III : Protection des personnes déplacées dans leur pays

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01 Sep 2004

World
Progress for Children

Report

— UN Children's Fund

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This report addresses the fourth Millennium Development Goal, which aims for a two-thirds reduction of under-five mortality rates between 1990 and 2015. It reveals global gains in child survival since 1990, but also significant discrepancies within and across countries and regions. The document is divided into the following regions:

- Sub-Saharian Africa
- South Asia
- Middle East and North Africa
- East Asia and Pacific
- CEE/CIS Baltic states
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Industrialized countries.

The aim of this report, released

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01 Sep 2004

World
NGO Partnership in Refugee Protection: Questions and Answers

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— UN High Commissioner for Refugees

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This booklet highlights UNHCR's cooperation with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), which include both national and international partners.The information answers the following questions:

- Who are UNHCR's NGO partners?
- How did UNHCR-NGO cooperation begin and develop?
- Where do UNHCR's partners work?
- How much funding does UNHCR provide its partners?
- How are UNHCR programmes implemented by ngos ?
- What are the areas of UNHCR-NGO partnerships?

The document illustrates how UNHCR has turned to NGOs more recently to address growing needs in legal

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01 Sep 2004

World
Implementing the Collaborative Response to Situations of Internal Displacement: Guidance for UN Humanitarian and/or Resident Coordinators and Country Teams

Report

— Inter-Agency Standing Committee

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This document outlines the roles and responsibilities of different headquarters and field-based actors in implementing the collaborative response. It includes a one-page, step-by-step Procedural Roadmap on the process of implementing the collaborative response. Moreover, the following annexes are included:

Strategy checklist: Provides guidance on how to formulate the Strategic Action Plan.

Activities list: Outlines the sorts of activities that a given agency might be able to undertake during a given phase of the displacement crisis.

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01 Sep 2004

World
UNAIDS at Country Level - Progress Report

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— UNAIDS

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This progress report summarizes the achievements of the Country and Regional Support Department in 2003 and presents selected highlights in greater detail. It is divided as follow:

Part I: A Strategic Framework for Action: Directions for the Future.

Part II: Translating Global Initiatives into Country Action.

Part III: Achievements in Regions and Countries.

The report concludes with a collection of two-page country situation and progress summaries from 70 of the 134 countries with the UN Theme Groups on HIV/AIDS.

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01 Sep 2004

World
Safety and Security of Humanitarian Personnel and Protection of United Nations Personnel (A/59/332)

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— UN General Assembly

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The General Assembly, in its resolution 58/122 of 17 December 2003, requested the Secretary-General to submit to it at its fifty-ninth session a comprehensive and updated report on the safety and security situation of humanitarian personnel and protection of United Nations personnel and on the implementation of that resolution, including the progress made by the Secretary-General in pursuing accountability and assessing responsibility for all individual security incidents that involved United Nations and its associated personnel at all levels throughout

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01 Sep 2004

World
Forced Migration Review Issue No.21- Home for Good: Challenges of Return and Reintegration

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— Forced Migration Review, University of Oxford

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Forced Migration Review provides a forum for the regular exchange of practical experience, information and ideas between researchers, refugees and internally displaced people, and those who work with them. It is published three times a year in English, Spanish and Arabic by the Refugee Studies Centre/University of Oxford in association with the Global IDP Project/Norwegian Refugee Council. The Spanish translation, Revista de Migraciones Forzadas, is produced by IDEI in Guatemala.

Contents
- Making return and reintegration sustainable,

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01 Sep 2004

World
Our Bodies -Their Battleground: Gender-Based Violence in Conflict Zones

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— IRIN

This Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) In-Depth takes a critical look at violence against women and girls during and after conflict. The series features information about rape as a tool of war, humanitarian action against gender-based violence (GBV), the responsibilities of state and civil society in addressing this issue, the relationship between impunity and GBV, and the connections between war and women's health. Frontline reporting originates from Angola, DRC, Burundi, Liberia, Tajikistan, and Sudan. Interviews with experts from the

IRIN:

A selection of IRIN reports are posted on ReliefWeb. Find more IRIN news and analysis at http://www.irinnews.org

Une sélection d'articles d'IRIN sont publiés sur ReliefWeb. Trouvez d'autres articles et analyses d'IRIN sur http://www.irinnews.org

This article does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations or its agencies. Refer to the IRIN copyright page for conditions of use.

Cet article ne reflète pas nécessairement les vues des Nations Unies. Voir IRIN droits d'auteur pour les conditions d'utilisation.

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01 Sep 2004

World
Improving the Analysis of Food Insecurity - Food Insecurity Measurement, Livelihoods Approaches and Policy: Applications in FIVIMS

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— Food and Agriculture Organization

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Since the mid-1990s, livelihoods-based approaches have increasingly come to dominate the analysis of poverty and food insecurity, and the design of anti-poverty and famine prevention interventions, especially at the local (community to district or 'food economy zone') level. There is a growing consensus on the usefulness of livelihoods approaches for
assessing, monitoring and mapping food insecurity and vulnerability, and a number of analytical toolkits have been developed and adopted by development agencies that draw on the holistic nature of livelihoods-based approaches.

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01 Sep 2004

World
Asian Approaches to Peace and Security and the Role of the United Nations

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— International Peace Academy

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Introduction

Asian states contribute greatly to the United Nations in both human and ?nancial terms. The region has also been the venue for some of the de?ning missions of the UN, from Korea in the 1950s to more recent operations in Cambodia and East Timor. However, in discussions on the role of the UN, Asian voices are often not heard.

Do Asian states have a distinct view of state sovereignty, of security more generally, and of the appropriate responses to threats in the post-September 11 security climate? To what

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01 Sep 2004

World
2004 Report on International Religious Freedom

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— US Department of State

Sometimes intolerance has several components, including a religious dimension. Anti-Semitism, for example, touches on both religious discrimination and ethnic discrimination, and it continues to be a problem of great concern to the U.S. Government and the international community. This year's report shows a disturbing increase in anti-Semitism in several European countries, as well as ongoing anti-Semitism in many predominantly Muslim countries. To address this issue, in April the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) hosted in Berlin a second

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01 Sep 2004

Philippines
Philippine government readies for disease outbreak in flooded areas

Report

— Deutsche Presse Agentur

Manila (dpa) - Disaster relief officials on Wednesday braced for a possible outbreak of diseases in northern Philippine provinces hard hit by massive floods that have killed 43 people since last week.

Neri Amparo, an official of the Office of Civil Defence (OCD), said there have been reports of rising cases of cholera, dengue and other diseases in evacuation centres.

"Some local government officials have already requested for medicines although we have not yet received reports of actual outbreaks of diseases,'' she said.

"We are preparing to send in medicines

Deutsche Presse Agentur:

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01 Sep 2004

Sudan
Sudan peace talks inch towards compromise on protection of civilians

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— Agence France-Presse

by Ade Obisesan

ABUJA, Sept 1 (AFP) - Sudanese government and rebel leaders inched closer to compromise here Wednesday on a proposed African Union agreement to protect the Darfur region's 1.2 million displaced people from hunger, rape and murder.

After eight days of peace talks in the Nigerian capital, envoys from Sudan's government and Darfur's two rebel movements were still squabbling over the first point on their agenda: a deal to guarantee access to humanitarian teams.

When they returned to the table on Wednesday

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01 Sep 2004

Afghanistan
Aid workers accuse military in Afghanistan of putting them in danger

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— Agence France-Presse

by Rachel Morarjee

KABUL, Sept 1 (AFP) - Thirty-four aid organisations in Afghanistan said on Wednesday they were increasingly being targeted by militant attacks because of the blurring between military operations and aid work in the country.

The groups said the local authorities and foreign military forces had "deliberately" confused military and humanitarian operations in Afghanistan, which is rebuilding its infrastructure after 25 years of war.

"The past few weeks and months have seen a dramatic increase in the number of violent assaults and threats

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01 Sep 2004

Russian Federation
Interview with Pascal Mangin: Peace and democracy in Chechnya have still to be forged

Report

— Council of Europe

In the wake of the presidential election in Chechnya, a delegation sent to investigate by the Parliamentary Assembly and the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, which was present at the time of the ballot, reports on the climate on the spot. According to Pascal Mangin, Congress member, the solution cannot come solely from on high.

Interview (01.09.2004)

Question: Pascal Mangin, you are deputy to the Mayor of Strasbourg and, in that capacity, a member of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. You

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01 Sep 2004

Bahamas + 3 others
Hurricane Frances OCHA Situation Report No. 2

Report

— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2004/132
OCHA Situation Report No. 2
Hurricane Frances
1 September 2004

This message is not an official hurricane warning or alert for any country.

1. The National Weather Center in Miami reports that at 15:00 GMT today, the center of Hurricane Frances was located near latitude 21.7 North, longitude 69.8 West or about 85 miles (135 km) East of Grand Turk Island and 735 miles (1,180 km) east-southeast of the Florida east coast.

2. A Hurricane Warning has been issued for the central Bahamas, which includes Cat, Exumas, Long Islands,

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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

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Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Desert Locust Ground Control

World
Hunger in Their Wake: Inside the Battle Against the Desert Locust

World
Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Desert Locust Aerial Survey and Control

World
Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Desert Locust Ground Survey

World
Mise en Oeuvre de l'Action Concertée Face aux Situations de Déplacement Interne - Directive pour les Coordinateurs Humanitaires et/ou Résidents et les Equipes de Pays des Nations Unies

World
Progress for Children

World
NGO Partnership in Refugee Protection: Questions and Answers

World
Implementing the Collaborative Response to Situations of Internal Displacement: Guidance for UN Humanitarian and/or Resident Coordinators and Country Teams

World
UNAIDS at Country Level - Progress Report

World
Safety and Security of Humanitarian Personnel and Protection of United Nations Personnel (A/59/332)

World
Forced Migration Review Issue No.21- Home for Good: Challenges of Return and Reintegration

World
Our Bodies -Their Battleground: Gender-Based Violence in Conflict Zones

World
Improving the Analysis of Food Insecurity - Food Insecurity Measurement, Livelihoods Approaches and Policy: Applications in FIVIMS

World
Asian Approaches to Peace and Security and the Role of the United Nations

World
2004 Report on International Religious Freedom

Philippines
Philippine government readies for disease outbreak in flooded areas

Sudan
Sudan peace talks inch towards compromise on protection of civilians

Afghanistan
Aid workers accuse military in Afghanistan of putting them in danger

Russian Federation
Interview with Pascal Mangin: Peace and democracy in Chechnya have still to be forged

Bahamas + 3 others
Hurricane Frances OCHA Situation Report No. 2

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