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01 Nov 2001

World
Inter-Agency Contingency Planning Guidelines for Humanitarian Assistance

Report
— Inter-Agency Standing Committee
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Provides guidelines on inter-agency contingency planning in humanitarian emergencies, this document aims to address the need for a common inter-agency methodology on the basis of common planning parameters.

Also offering a comprehensive contingency plan checklist and contingency planning brainstorming guide, the guidelines are the result of a collaborative effort within the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) by the Reference Group on Contingency Planning and Preparedness chaired by UNICEF and WFP. The guidelines build on agency-specific contingency
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01 Nov 2001

World
OCHA and the Timor Crisis 1999

Report
— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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This independent study examines OCHA's actions before, during and after the immediate crisis period in Timor in 1999. It aims to identify lessons to improve OCHA's humanitarian preparedness, intervention and coordination in future complex emergency environments. In addition to background information and key events, the study focuses on the following aspects of OCHA's work:

- Pre-ballot period, in the context of UNAMET and its contingency planning
- Post-ballot humanitarian crisis phase
- Transition of emergency coordination structures into UNTAET's 'humanitarian 'pillar'
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 Nov 2001

World
Response Strategies of the Internally Displaced : Changing the Humanitarian Lens

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— Norwegian Refugee Council
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This document is part of an attempt to better understand the situation facing the displaced by looking more closely at what they do for themselves and among themselves to respond to the trauma and upheaval of displacement. The following issues are considered:

- Guiding Principles: How they support IDP response strategies
- Research agenda: Further investigation and analysis
- Structure to involve the displaced
- Protection and the humanitarian response

The report is the outcome of a seminar organised
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01 Nov 2001

World
Child Soldiers Preventing, Demobilizing and Reintegrating

Report
— World Bank
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With an estimated 300,000 child soldiers involved in armed conflicts, this report shares lessons learned about demobilization and reintegration programs for child soldiers.

A collaboration with UNICEF on lessons learned in the prevention, demobilization, and reintegration of children involved in armed conflict, the report draws from in-depth case studies on Angola and El Salvador as well as other country program experiences.

The report also includes an annex offering information on recommended readings, reference on the international legal
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01 Nov 2001

World
Ethical Guidelines for Researchers in the Field of Gender and Peace Building

Report
— Women Waging Peace
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This document offers preliminary principles as the foundation for a new relationship between researchers and women activists in conflict zones. For this purpose, it offers chapters on the following issues:

- Before leaving for the field
- Working with the community: What's in it for them?
- Participatory Action Research
- As you leave the community
- After you have left the community
- Using  the results in policymaking

The guidelines are offered as a means to overcome the issue of conventional academic researchers and women activists
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01 Nov 2001

World
The Impact of Conflict on Women and Girls

Report
— UN Population Fund
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This conference report examines issues inherent in planning and implementing programmes to support reproductive health care, women's empowerment and population and development programmes in conflict and post-conflict settings.

Working groups discussed:
- Reproductive health
- Gender-based violence: Trafficking, domestic violence and sexual violence
- Impact of peacekeeping operations on women and girls
- Role of NGOs in post-conflict situations for women and girls

Background papers are provided on:
- Impact of Conflict on Reproductive Health
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01 Nov 2001

World
Information Exchange for Humanitarian Coordination in the Horn of Africa

Report
— ODI - Humanitarian Practice Network
This article looks at some of the benefits and constraints involved in humanitarian data and information exchange between involved organisations and countries, and reviews possible solutions to the problems posed.

Specifically focusing on the Horn of Africa, the article highlights the need to build up the voluntary but formal institutional arrangements for information exchange at national and regional levels.
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01 Nov 2001

World
Small Arms and the Humanitarian Community: Developing A Strategy for Action

Report
— Humanitarian Coalition on Small Arms
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Providing an overview of issues associated with the human cost of proliferation and misuse of small arms, this report contains presentations from a meeting held in 2001 entitled 'Small Arms and the Humanitarian Community: Developing a Strategy for Action'. For this purpose, chapters consider the following issues:

- Development, health, humanitarian and human rights impacts of the small arms trade
- Lessons learnt from other campaigns: Landmines, child soldiers and the International Criminal Court
- Framework for action
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01 Nov 2001

World
Gender Equality, Environmental Management and Natural Disaster Mitigation

Report
— UN Division for the Advancement of Women
Representing an international dialogue on the interconnecting issues of gender equality, environmental management, and natural disaster mitigation, this report analyses the following five themes:

- Victims? Heroines? Gender myths and realities in disasters
- Managing and using environmental resources in women's daily lives
- Coping with immediate and long-term challenges of natural disasters
- Exploiting the "window of opportunity" for social change following natural disasters
- Integrating gender equality into disaster
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01 Nov 2001

World
Human Rights and Field Reports 1999

Report
— Carleton University
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Since 1945, more civilians have been killed as a consequence of gross human rights violations than as a result of international, colonial and civil wars. Despite increased efforts to understand human rights violations (HRVs) and internal warfare following the Bosnian war and Rwandan genocide, minimal attention has been devoted to understanding the linkage between these two factors. Accordingly, this research essay will examine the following questions:

1) Is there a link between HRVs and conflict escalation?
2) How might efforts to respond to HRVs,
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01 Nov 2001

Indonesia + 1 other
East Timorese refugees plan to hold border reconciliation meeting

Report
— Agence France-Presse
JAKARTA, Nov 1 (AFP) - East Timorese refugees who opposed the territory's breakaway from Indonesia are to hold a border reconciliation meeting with former opponents in an attempt to encourage a return home, a report said Thursday.

The refugees, currently in camps in Indonesian West Timor, will take part in a "grand reconciliation meeting" on November 5, an organiser was quoted by the state Antara news agency as saying.

Belarminus Filomeno Neves said up to 400 refugees who fled three districts in East Timor would meet at the border

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01 Nov 2001

Burundi
Burundi: The transitional period - a new opportunity for the respect of human rights

Report
— Amnesty
AI Index: AFR 16/040/2001
As the transitional period begins in Burundi today, in a context of on-going armed conflict, it is essential that human rights issues are at the forefront of the transitional government's policies and any debate on institutional reform, Amnesty International said today.

"The urgency to better protect and promote human rights is underlined by new reports of human rights violations, including extrajudicial executions by members of the government armed forces," Amnesty International said.

Scores of civilians have been killed

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01 Nov 2001

Afghanistan + 1 other
World Vision's Umeed project assists Afghan refugees in India

Report
— World Vision
by John Mathai
World Vision's Umeed (meaning "hope" in Urdu) project has been the only shining ray of hope for displaced Afghans in Delhi, India's capital, for the last 3 years. Set up on 7 July 1998, the Umeed Program has been actively working towards the local integration and facilitation of resettlement of Afghan refugees to other countries of asylum.

The Umeed program has been working with more than 18,000 refugees from Afghanistan, who are spread out over the whole of New Delhi. Most of these people, uprooted by conflicts as old

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01 Nov 2001

Afghanistan + 4 others
Afghanistan: Humanitarian crisis: Appeal No. 32/01 operations update No. 10

Report
— IFRC
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Preliminary Appeal launched on 21 September 2001 for CHF 8,765,000 for 2 months. Revised on 3 October 2001 and the budget increased to CHF 40,280,340 for 6 months.
DREF Allocated: CHF 600,000.
Beneficiaries: 300,000
Period covered: 30 - 31 October 2001. Last update issued: Operations Update no. 09 dated 29 October 2001.

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01 Nov 2001

Afghanistan
UN draws up survival plan as winter snows draw nearer

Report
— Agence France-Presse
by Stephen Coates

ISLAMABAD, Nov 1 (AFP) - The United Nations will use snow ploughs to keep Afghanistan's mountain passes open this winter as fears mount that hundreds of thousands of people could be cut off by snow and left to starve.

The world body is also drawing up plans to airdrop life-saving food supplies to around 700,000 of the most vulnerable people in the country's remote northern valleys.

Officials said the numbers of people dependent on international food aid in the north of the country had risen

Agence France-Presse:

©AFP: The information provided in this product is for personal use only. None of it may be reproduced in any form whatsoever without the express permission of Agence France-Presse.

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01 Nov 2001

Afghanistan + 1 other
Afghanistan: Brahimi mission

Report
— Frontier Post
Mr Lakhdar Brahimi, the special envoy of the UN Secretary General, has been having an extended round of meetings since arriving in Islamabad.

First and foremost, he met President General Pervez Musharraf.

This meeting remained focused on the UN-sponsored process for setting up a broad-based government in Kabul following the fall of the Taliban regime.

The president emphasised to Mr Brahimi the need for setting in motion the political process simultaneously with the military operation.

This should be followed, General Musharraf

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