It is now recognized that sustainable human development cannot be achieved without gender equality. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 hinges on making tangible progress with...
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Solving Property Issues of Refugees and Displaced Persons
Summary The displacement of millions of people worldwide presents a key human rights and humanitarian challenge. For both refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), the loss of homes and land...
New Protection Manual for Human Rights Defenders
A manual on protection and security for human rights defenders and those who work for their protection (in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Nepalese, and Bahasa Indonesia)
Fuel and Firewood Initiative
Displaced women and girls must regularly find firewood to cook food for their families, or to sell to make a meager income. Each time they leave the relative safety of the camp to search for...
Sri Lanka: Anti-personnel mines recovered
MULLAITTIVU: SL Army troops recovered 02 anti-personnel mines during a search operation conducted in NANDIKADAL area yesterday (01). Meanwhile troops of the 59 Division recovered another 03...
Mid Term Evaluation of the Mine Action Programme in Afghanistan - Final Report
(abstract) Elements of both projects can be seen as very successful Overall, the UNMAS project was more successful, whereas UNDP's ANBP was seen as increasingly under-performing, and became less...
Human Rights Watch World Report 2010
The Abusers' Reaction: Intensifying Attacks on Human Rights Defenders, Organizations, and Institutions By Kenneth Roth Every government is at times tempted to violate human rights. To encourage...
Sri Lanka: North East Joint Humanitarian Update - Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Mannar, Vavuniya, and Trincomalee Districts Report No. 16, 19 Dec 2009 -01 Jan 2010
I. Situation Overview & highlights Jaffna District: - The A9 road from the Jaffna Peninsula was opened for public and private vehicles from 18 December, with movement permitted between 6.00am and...
Kenya + 2 more
UNHCR Kenya Operation weekly situation update (week ending 01 Jan 2010)
Refugee Influx (See Full Report) Security concerns and security incidents over the last week Over the holiday period Kenya remained stable. However UNHCR's overall security posture was heightened due...
Facts for Life - Fourth Edition
Please refer to the attached file.
UNU Policy Brief Number 1, 2010: Sexed Pistols: The Gendered Impacts of Prolific Small Arms
Every day, small arms and light weapons (SALW) kill and maim, wound and threaten millions of adults and children, whether combatants and civilians in war zones or gangs and communities in degraded...
Alert 2010! Report on conflicts, human rights and peacebuilding
Alert 2010! Report on conflict, human rights and peacebuilding is a yearbook which analyzes the state of the world in connection with conflicts and peacebuilding based on six areas of analysis: armed...
Management of Acute Malnutrition in Infants (MAMI) Project Technical Review: Current evidence, policies, practices & programme outcomes
Child malnutrition is a major global public health problem. In developing countries, it is estimated that 19 million children are severely wasted and malnutrition is responsible for 11% of the total...
Alerta 2010! Informe sobre Conflictos, Derechos Humanos y Construcción de Paz
Alerta 2010! Informe sobre conflictos, derechos humanos y construcción de paz es un anuario que analiza el estado del mundo en términos de conflictividad y construcción de paz a partir de seis ejes...
Cabo Verde + 8 more
Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Office for West Africa (S/2009/682)
I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to the request contained in the letter dated 21 December 2007 from the President of the Security Council (S/2007/754), in which the Council...
Burundi : BINUB Info No. 36 - Journée mondiale des droits de l'homme (10 décembre 2009)
Editorial Cartes d'identité Un million de cartes nationales d'identité à distribuer aux citoyens burundais...Et cela en l'espace de 15 jours ! c'est le pari ambitieux que le Governement burundais,...
Sudan + 1 more
Land, Security and Peace Building in the Southern Sudan
By =D8ystein H. Rolandsen (PRIO) Executive Summary Violence and insecurity threatens peacebuilding in the Southern Sudan and the 2011 referendum on self-determination. The Sudan's interim period...
Situation des droits de l'homme & de la justice au Burundi - rapport trimestriel octobre-novembre-décembre 2009
I. Sommaire - Stabilité du nombre de cas de violations de droits de l'homme rapportés au cours du dernier trimestre de 2009; - Inquiétudes face à la persistance des violations des droits civils et...
Iraq + 1 more
UNHCR Iraq Factsheet - December 2009
2009 Objectives Return Shelter: Rehabilitation and reconstruction of 10,338 units for IDPs and refugee returnees with particular focus in the Central region where higher number of returns occur. ...
Somalia: HRF Supported Projects, 2009 (as of 31 Dec 2009)
Please refer to the attached Map.