Protection and Human Rights

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01 Oct 2003

World
Report of the FAO/OXFAM GB Wokshop on Women's Land Rights in Southern and Eastern Africa

Report
— Oxfam
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 The report summarises the papers, presentations and discussions of a workshop on failures and achievements at securing women's land rights. In particular, it addresses the following issues:
 
 - Land rights and legal reforms
 - Legal aid and land administration practice
 - Women's land rights in an HIV/AIDS context
 - Women's land rights from a food security and livelihoods context

Organised by the FAO and Oxfam, the workshop seeks to establish global and multi-sectoral alliances and multiple strategies
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01 Oct 2003

World
Is Humanitarianism Being Politicised? A Reply to David Rieff

Report
— Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
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Humanitarianism is always politicized somehow. It is a political project in a political world. Its mission is a political one - to restrain and ameliorate the use of organised violence in human relations and to engage with power in order to do so. Powers that are either sympathetic or unsympathetic to humanitarian action in war always have an interest in shaping it their way.

The "politicization of humanitarianism" is not an outrage in itself. Ethics and politics are not opposites. There can be good politics, bad politics and some politics that are better than
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01 Oct 2003

World
Secretary-General's Bulletin: Special Measures for Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse ST/SGB/2003/13

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— UN Secretary-General
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The Secretary-General, for the purpose of preventing and addressing cases of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse, and taking into consideration General Assembly resolution 57/306 of 15 April 2003, "Investigation into sexual exploitation of refugees by aid workers in West Africa", promulgates the following document in consultation with Executive Heads of separately administered organs and programmes of the United Nations.
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01 Oct 2003

World
UNHCR's Erika Feller: Effective protection in today's world

Report
— UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme (54th Session)
Statement by Ms. Erika Feller
Director, Department of International Protection
"Effective Protection in Today's World"
Introduction

Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen,

The Agenda for Protection was endorsed by this Committee one year ago. It set six goals to pursue - for UNHCR, for States and for other protection partners, notably NGOs. In simple terms, the goals are: better implementation of the protection

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01 Oct 2003

occupied Palestinian territory
Israel: West Bank barrier endangers basic rights

Report
— Human Rights Watch
(New York, October 1, 2003) The United States should deduct the cost of the West Bank separation barrier from U.S. loan guarantees for Israel, Human Rights Watch said today.
In a letter to U.S. President George W. Bush, Human Rights Watch said the barrier's path and operating arrangements violate the freedom of movement of Palestinians, endangering their access to food, water, education, and medical services. With every mile the barrier cuts into the West Bank, towns, villages, and residents become separated from their lands, crops, services, water, and jobs.
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01 Oct 2003

Liberia
Liberia: Complex Emergency Situation Report #1 (FY 2004)

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— US Agency for International Development


U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA)
OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)
Note: This Situation Report updates USAID/OFDA Liberia Situation Report #12, dated September 24, 2003.

Background

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01 Oct 2003

Iraq
HELP starts mine clearance Iraq

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— HELP - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V.
4 Deminers are on the way to the conflict region - Huge promblems with un-exploded ordnance
Bonn/Baghdad: The German relief organisation HELP starts a mine- and unexploded ordnance (UXO) - clearance project in Iraq today. An international team is on the way to the conflict area to train Iraqi deminers in this dangerous work and clear most affected areas around Baghdad of those devices of war in the country. The project is financed by the German Ministry of Forreign Affairs and private donations.

After about 20 years of war, there is

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01 Oct 2003

Liberia + 1 other
Sierra Leone: UNMIL staff start pre-deployment training in Freetown

Report
— UN Mission in Sierra Leone
Freetown - Thirty-five senior military officers, five UN Civilian Police Officers (CIVPOL) and ten civilian personnel scheduled for deployment with the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) today start pre-deployment training at the Bintumani hotel in Freetown. The training, which is scheduled to continue until 19 October, will cover wide-ranging issues on UN peacekeeping operations prior to the officers' deployment in neighbouring Liberia.
The military division of the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) is organizing and facilitating the training
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01 Oct 2003

Israel + 1 other
OPT wall: Letter from the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the UN SG (A/58/399-S/2003/929)

Report
— UN Security Council
A/58/399-S/2003/929
Security Council
Fifty-eighth year

General Assembly
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda items 37, 38, 84 and 103

The situation in the Middle East

Question of Palestine

Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories

Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources

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01 Oct 2003

Iraq
The Madrid Conference on Reconstruction in Iraq, 24 Oct 2003

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— European Commission
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COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
Brussels, 01/10/03
COM(2003) 575

COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

The Madrid Conference on Reconstruction in Iraq
24 October 2003

1. INTRODUCTION

At the Thessaloniki European Council on 19-20 June 2003, the European Union reiterated its commitment to the development of a prosperous and stable Iraq and concluded that it "stands ready to participate in the reconstruction of Iraq within the framework

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30 Sep 2003

Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: Repatriation from India by district (Jan 02 to Sep 03)

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— UN High Commissioner for Refugees
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Map created by the UNHCR GIS Unit - Sri Lanka
Data Sources: UNHCR, Ministry of Resettlement, Rehabilitation, and Refugees, September 2003
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30 Sep 2003

Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Displacement

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— Sierra Leone Information System
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Data Sources:
UNHCR Regional Office - Abidjan  
UNHCR Sierra Leone
OCHA Sierra Leone
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30 Sep 2003

Afghanistan + 13 others
Restoring rule of law absolutely essential for resolving conflict, rebuilding secure, humane societies, Security Council told

Report
— UN Security Council


SC/7884
Security Council
4835th Meeting (AM)

The restoration of the rule of law was a sine qua non for the sustainable resolution of conflict and the rebuilding of secure, orderly and humane societies, Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, told the Security Council this morning as it considered "Justice and the Rule of Law: the role of the United Nations". Too often, he said, the United Nations had failed to give that critical sector the importance it was due.

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30 Sep 2003

Somalia
Security Council sanctions committee to visit Somalia in bid to boost arms ban

Report
— UN News Service
Members of the United Nations Security Council committee overseeing sanctions against Somalia will visit the area next month in a bid to boost enforcement of the arms embargo.
The two-week trip is slated to begin 12 October and will include experts from all 15 Council members. The group, led by the Chairman of the committee, Ambassador Stefan Tafrov of Bulgaria, plans to visit Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Yemen and, provided that security conditions permit, Somalia itself, according to a news release.

The group is expected to check on the

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30 Sep 2003

Iraq + 2 others
U.S. contributes $13 million to UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Report
— US Department of State
The United States is pleased to announce an additional contribution of $13 million to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. This final contribution in fiscal year 2003 brings the United States' contribution to the organization to over $310 million.
Of this $13 million, $10 million will support the refugee agency's assistance and protection activities for Iraqi refugees and others in need of protection in Iraq. The remainder of the funding will respond to the urgent requirements of some 65,000 new Sudanese
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30 Sep 2003

Colombia
Annan reiterates offer to help Colombia reach negotiated solution to conflict

Report
— UN News Service
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan met with President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia today and reiterated his commitment to assist the South American country in reaching a negotiated solution to the decades-old conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced 2 million more.
The two discussed the work of the UN in Colombia and Mr. Annan's "good offices continue to be at the disposal of the parties," a UN spokesman said after the meeting at UN Headquarters in New York, where Mr. Uribe addressed the General Assembly's annual top-level meeting.
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30 Sep 2003

Israel + 1 other
B'Tselem: The government's proposal is politically motivated and will harm tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians

Report
— Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
As the Cabinet deliberates the route of Stage 3 of the "Separation Barrier"
The government's proposal is politically motivated and will harm tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians

Setting the route of the third stage of the separation barrier so that it passes east of the settlements of Ariel, Qedumim, Immanu'el, and Qarne Shomeron - in accordance with the proposal put forward by the Minister of Defense and the Prime Minister - proves once again that the defense establishment's decisions regarding the barrier are based on unacceptable political considerations.

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30 Sep 2003

Russian Federation
UNICEF Humanitarian Assistance in the Northern Caucasus Situation Report No. 76

Report
— UN Children's Fund
16-30 September 2003
General situation

The situation regarding the 'Bella' IDP camp in Ingushetia has been evolving considerably during the reporting period. As of 30 September, the camp was empty and works were underway to dismantle the camp infrastructure and relocate it to 'Satsita' camp, where the majority of IDPs from 'Bella' have chosen to be accommodated, upon receipt of a number of guarantees from the authorities. UNHCR provided a total of 166 tents for this purpose. On 30 September, a joint OCHA-UNICEF-HWA-Caritas

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