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01 Jun 1996

Rwanda
IOM Locations in Rwanda

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— International Organization for Migration
International Organization for Migration:

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01 Jun 1996

World
UNHCR Environmental Guidelines

Report
— UN High Commissioner for Refugees
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Aiming to lay the basis for incorporating environmental factors into specific UNHCR guidance/guidelines, those outlined in this report aims to provide a framework within which UNHCR staff will be able to:

- Identify and evaluate environmental impacts and assign a rough economic cost to these
- Identify and evaluate opportunities to undertake positive environmental interventions
- Select interventions combining the interests of refugees, receiving country, donors and UNHCR

The guidelines are part of an effort to better
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01 Jun 1996

World
Conflict and Development: Gender and Development In Brief Issue 3

Report
— BRIDGE
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Conflicts pose a major challenge for relief and development agencies working in affected areas. In this issue of Development and Gender in Brief, the debate on conflict and development is viewed through a gender lens. While gender is now an accepted development concern, gender analysis has yet to be widely applied to conflict situations. Media accounts of mass rape in Bosnia and elsewhere portray women as victims of war. This bulletin looks beyond these sensationalist images to see how militarisation affects men and women and how new opportunities which arise in conflict
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01 Jun 1996

World
Humanitarian Exchange Magazine No. 5 - Relief and Rehabilitation Network Newsletter

Report
— ODI - Humanitarian Practice Network
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Here, we offer a brief résumé of recent initiatives resulting from the Evaluation of Emergency Assistance to Rwanda. At this stage, it is difficult to gauge the impact of the Evaluation's recommendations on the international relief system as a whole, but in the two months since its publication in March 1996, it has been discussed in numerous fora and some of its findings are being acted upon at a number of levels. This issue reflects on findings in such areas as, accountability, standards, monitoring and reporting. Other findings focus on early warning and preparedness.
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31 May 1996

Liberia
Special Alert No. 268 - Liberia

Report
— Food and Agriculture Organization
Recent resurgence of civil strife in Monrovia could further aggravate the already tight food supply situation and hamper emergency assistance and agricultural rehabilitation activities in Liberia. The present disturbances have caused a new wave of population displacement affecting hundreds of thousands of civilians. Severe food shortages and deaths from cholera, measles and malaria have already been reported from some areas. Most emergency and project operations, which were generally coordinated from Monrovia, have been halted. Roads towards the centre of
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31 May 1996

United Republic of Tanzania
Great Lakes: UNHCR Situation Report 16 - 31 May 1996

Report
— UN High Commissioner for Refugees
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Office of the Special Envoy, Kigali
Main Developments

The steering committee formed to oversee implementation of the plan of action from the Bujumbura conference in February 1995 met for the first time in Geneva on 24 May, with representatives of Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, the US, the EU and UN attending a day-long session co-chaired by UNHCR and the OAU. Participants expressed concern and frustration over the lack of significant repatriation in the Great Lakes Region, while noting the increasing number of international

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31 May 1996

Democratic Republic of the Congo
WFP Emergency Report No. 21 of 1996: East Africa

Report
— World Food Programme
This report includes: A) General B) Liberia and Sierra Leone C) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania D) Somalia E) Mozambique F) CIS - Russian Federation (Chechnya).
From B. Szynalski, Director, Operational Policy and Support Division. For information regarding resources, donors are requested to contact Ms. B. Karlstrom Dorph, Director, Resources Division, WFP Rome (Ph. 39 6 5228 2500)

PART I - HIGHLIGHTS
(Details below in Part II)

C. EAST AFRICA 1: REGIONAL OPERATION FOR BURUNDI, RWANDA, ZAIRE AND TANZANIA

1. Burundi

a) Interior of the country remains

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31 May 1996

Liberia
WFP Emergency Report No. 21 of 1996: Liberia

Report
— World Food Programme
This report includes: A) General B) Liberia and Sierra Leone C) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania D) Somalia E) Mozambique F) CIS - Russian Federation (Chechnya).
From B. Szynalski, Director, Operational Policy and Support Division. For information regarding resources, donors are requested to contact Ms. B. Karlstrom Dorph, Director, Resources Division, WFP Rome (Ph. 39 6 5228 2500)

PART I - HIGHLIGHTS
(Details below in Part II)

B. LIBERIA AND SIERRA LEONE

1. Liberia

a) Overall security situation improves

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31 May 1996

Azerbaijan
LesNationsUnies Lancent Un Appel EnVueDe Reculleillir 101 Millions DeDollars D'aide Humanitaire D'urgencePour LeCaucase

Report
— UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs
New York/Genève, le 31 mai 1996 (Département des affaires humanitaires) -- Les Nations Unies ont lancé aujourd'hui un appel commun interinstitutions en vue de recueillir 101 millions de dollars pour financer des programmes d'aide humanitaire en Arménie, en Azerbaïdjian et en Géorgie. Ces fonds seront consacrés à des projets visant à répondre aux besoins humanitaires les plus urgents des réfugiés, des personnes déplacées et d'autres groupes vulnérables.
L'appel couvre la période de 12 mois allant de juin 1996 à mai 1997, et concerne des projets de neuf agences
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31 May 1996

Yemen
Yemen Annual Report 1995

Report
— ICRC
Introduction
During the year the ICRC stepped up its activities for the civilian population and for detainees in the central prisons and in places of detention under the jurisdiction of the Criminal Investigation Department and the Political Security Ad ministration. It also focused on dissemination activities for the armed forces, t he Yemeni Red Crescent Society and the general public. In September it launched a project to help mentally ill detainees in Sana'a central prison. Many of the del egation's activities, notably this project, assistance in prisons,
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31 May 1996

Iraq
Iraq Annual Report 1995

Report
— ICRC
Introduction
The embargo imposed on Iraq in connection with the Gulf war remained in force throughout 1995, and no steps were taken under UN Resolution 986 allowing Iraqi o il sales which, inter alia, would enable the country to purchase essential humani tarian supplies. The Iraqi population experienced increasing hardship: although t he government provided food rations covering up to 60 percent of people's basic n eeds, it was up to households to supplement them with their own purchases. This p roved more and more difficult for a growing section of the population
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31 May 1996

Armenia + 2 others
UN Appeals for US $101 million for Emergency Humanitarian Aid for the Caucasus

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— UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs
New York/Geneva, 31 May 1996 (Department of Humanitarian Affairs) -- The United Nations launched today a consolidated inter-agency appeal for US $101 million for humanitarian assistance programmes in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The funds are for projects which address the most urgent humanitarian needs of refugees, internally displaced persons and other vulnerable groups.
The appeal covers the twelve-month period June 1996 through May 1997, and comprises projects from nine United Nations agencies, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), plus non-governmental

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