Aiming to define practices to improve the security of refugee and displaced women, this conference report explores some of the relevant gender dynamics. Drawing on case studies on each topic and providing recommendations for practitioners, the report also provides in-depth analyses on the following issues:

- Physical and legal security
- Training programs for humanitarian personnel and peace operators
- Implementation and accountability

Held in Oslo in January of 2002, the conference entitled "Recommendations for policy and practice from International

Aiming to stimulate policy makers, managers and implementers to strengthen their response to HIV/AIDS, this document provides user-friendly guidance and mobilise humanitarian actors working in refugee settings to address HIV/AIDS. It considers the following aspects:

- Modes of transmission of HIV/AIDS
- STIs and HIV
- Protection and human rights
- Guiding principles for program responses
- Establishing HIV/AIDS interventions
- Prevention of transmission
- Care for people living with HIV/AIDS

Rather than providing a comprehensive guide

This paper briefly introduces the practice of using children as soldiers and the phenomenon of displacement within the context of human security. It explores some of the links between child soldiering and displacement, and provides international law and standards for protecting children in these situations.

The paper addresses the following issues:

-Human security challenge
-Displacement and child soldiering
-Viscious circle
-Rights
-Recommendations

The sponsors of this paper, namely the Brookings Institution-CUNY Project on Internal Displacement, the Norwegian Refugee Council and the US Committee for Refugees share the position that the internally displaced are an especially vulnerable group that merit international attention.

The central, ongoing policy debate among those who contributed insights to this paper is whether the humanitarian response to IDPs should be specifically "targeted" to this group or be integrated into policies which address overall vulnerability and

EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database.

Introduction
Community and Family Services International (CFSI) -- a Philippines-based social development organization with twenty years of domestic and international experience with uprooted persons -- has received funds from the Post Conflict Fund of the World Bank for a pilot project amongst internally displaced persons in Mindanao. There are two general objectives:

1. Make a difference in the lives of Filipinos displaced by armed conflict by working with the affected communities to develop enabling conditions that encourage safe return or settlement,

An update of our work in Tajikistan / Northern Afghanistan
Project Number: 85093470

• A Medical Team has been treating refugees
• There will be teams rotating in and out for the next 7-8 months
• 40 tonnes of winter clothing has been distributed
• 50 tonnes more are waiting to cross the border in 6 trucks
• THERE IS A BIG NEED FOR A TRUCK TO MOVE SUPPLIES QUICKLY

We continue to aim towards taking the refugees through the severe winter, providing tents, blankets, shoes & clothing, flour & beans, oil. We have