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01 Apr 2000

World
Older People in Disasters and Humanitarian Crises: Guidelines for Best Practice

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— HelpAge International
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With the aim of helping relief agencies meet the special needs of older people in emergencies, these guidelines outline key approaches and actions to help the humanitarian community reduce the vulnerability associated with ageing, as well ways of enhancing the capacities and contribution of older people in emergencies.

In addition, wider issues relating to older people in humanitarian crises are explored, ranging from globally agreed principles of social and civil practice and global demographic changes, to the physical impact of the ageing process, common images and assumptions
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01 Apr 2000

World
Forced Migration Review No. 7 - Going home: land & property issues

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— Forced Migration Review, University of Oxford
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Issue 7 deals with many of the difficult issues arising from schemes to restore property to returning refugees. It is hoped that this issue of Forced Migration Review will contribute to promoting discussion in the international refugee and IDP community about housing and property issues and highlight the importance of protecting the housing and property rights of all returnees, wherever they may be.

Contents
- Introduction: land and property issues
- At the heart of the return process: solving property issues in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Catherine Phuong
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21 Mar 2000

Indonesia
UN Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal for the Maluku Crisis 16 Mar - 30 Sep 2000

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— UN Resident Coordinator
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

During 1999 and into the first quarter of this year, the two provinces of Maluku and North Maluku have known unprecedented conflict, destruction and human suffering. Starting in Ambon in January 1999, the conflict escalated at various periods throughout the year, spreading to other parts of Maluku. The worst clashes occurred at the end of December and into January 2000, at the end of which the authorities reported more than 2,500 deaths, 18,300 houses burned or destroyed as well as 1,100 houses of worship and other public buildings.

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20 Mar 2000

Russian Federation
Ingushetia Situation Report No. 15

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— Danish Refugee Council
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Latest developments

  1. One of the top Chechen warlords has been captured by the Russian Intelligence Service in Chechnya.

  2. Russian Acting President Putin rules out talks with Chechen fighters.

  3. United Nations Human Rights Commission is urged to get tough on abuses in Chechnya.

  4. Russia warns of Chechnya trip ban if expelled from Council of Europe.

  5. A Salvation Army shipment arrived in the Chechen capital of Grozny a few days ago.

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06 Mar 2000

Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Humanitarian Situation Report: Special Issue Mar 2000

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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INTRODUCTION

1.) OVERVIEW - POLITICAL, SECURITY AND HUMANITARIAN CONTEXT

Gaining Humanitarian Access: A continuing Challenge

The DDR Factor

The UNAMSIL Factor

2.) THE PEACE PROCESS- Is time running out? - A humanitarian perspective

3.) CRITICAL AREAS OF NEED

Rehabilitation of water and sanitation facilities

Rehabilitation and support to the health sector

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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

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01 Mar 2000

World
Women at the Peace Table: Making a Difference

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— UN Development Fund for Women
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This report discusses the impact of women's contributions to peace negotiation processes. Through a series of interviews with women who have played prominent roles in peace processes, it examines:

- Obstacles faced and strategies adopted to reach the formal peace table
- Experiences at the peace table, including contributions made
- International commitments to increase women's participation in peace negotiations

Contributed to by government representatives and civil society leaders, the publication is part of UNIFEM's
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01 Mar 2000

World
Humanitarian Mine Action: The First Decade of a New Sector in Humanitarian Aid

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— ODI - Humanitarian Practice Network
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Highlighting the importance of treating mine action as a legitimate component of emergency, rehabilitation and development assistance, this paper presents definitions, premises, issues and main players that have emerged within the mine action sector in recent years. It includes the following chapters:

- Scope and nature of the landmines crisis
- International response
- Current status of mine action in terms of operations
- Central issues facing mine action

The paper is specifically written for the
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01 Mar 2000

World
The Principles of Humanitarian Action in International Humanitarian Law

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— ODI - Humanitarian Policy Group
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This study seeks to clarify the status and content of the principles of humanitarian action in international law and contribute to a better understanding of the extent to which these principles can strengthen arguments for their observance.

In particular, it examines the status and content of the terms 'humanitarian', 'impartial' and 'neutral', and their implications for relief agencies. It then looks briefly at whether the legal content of these terms helps determine the legitimacy of human rights 'conditionality' in humanitarian assistance, and finally considers whether
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01 Mar 2000

World
Measuring Landmine Incidents and Injuries and the Capacity to Provide Care

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— Physicians for Human Rights
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This manual offers tools to measure the impact of landmines, aiming to ensure that data collection proceeds according to appropriate scientific methods and allows the comparison of data between differing regions and countries. Main tools discussed are:

Overview Tools
- Country Capacity Tool
- Key Informant Tool

Epidemiological Tools
- Hospital Surveillance or Survey of Landmines Injuries Tool
- Community Survey Tool

Capability and Social Reintegration Tools
- Hospital Capability Survey Tool
- Orthopaedic/Rehab Center Capability Survey Tool
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01 Mar 2000

World
The Politics of Principle: The Principles of Humanitarian Action in Practice

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— ODI - Humanitarian Policy Group
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This study examines what humanitarian principles mean to humanitarian agencies, and what impact field level experiments in a 'principled approach' have had on agency practice and the behaviour of belligerents.

The study is based on two field studies where interagency agreement to promote principled approaches were adopted - the Joint Policy Operation (JPO) and the Principles and Protocols of Humanitarian
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01 Mar 2000

World
Humanitarian Exchange Magazine No. 16 - RNN Newsletter

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— ODI - Humanitarian Practice Network
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This Newsletter is extremely rich and has contributions grouped around a number of themes. These include the politics of humanitarian action, war economies, the structural reforms and policy challenges for the European Commission (EC), natural disasters, and the question of operational partnerships.

This issue also offers coverage about war economies, with particular examples from Angola and Sierra Leone, the role of non-state actors in such economies and their relationship with aid and relief agencies. Canada's Human Security, their falling aid budgets
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01 Mar 2000

World
The "Joint Policy of Operation" and the "Principles and Protocols of Humanitarian Operation" in Liberia

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— ODI - Humanitarian Policy Group
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Confronted with some of the most serious challenges ever faced in the provision of relief aid in conflict, the humanitarian community in Liberia developed two inter-agency mechanisms intended to reduce the extent to which their assistance was manipulated, and to increase respect for the principles of International Humanitarian Law (IHL). The Principles and Protocols of Humanitarian Operation (PPHO) was developed in late 1995 and included UN and NGO agencies. The Joint Policy of Operation (JPO) was developed in response to the massive looting of relief resources
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01 Mar 2000

World
The "Agreement on Ground Rules" in South Sudan

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— ODI - Humanitarian Policy Group
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In July 1995, the head of the UN's Operation Lifeline Sudan southern sector (OLS) signed an Agreement on Ground Rules with John Garang, Commander-in-Chief of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A). In August, a virtually identical agreement was signed with Riek Machar, Commander-in-Chief of the South Sudan Independence Movement (SSIM/A), and again a year later with Lam Akol of the SPLM-United. The agreements are intended, as the opening words make clear, "to set ou the basic principles upon which OLS works and to lay out the rules and regulations

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