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IDPs situation throughout Indonesia (Jun 03)

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Partnering with Local Organizations to Support the Reproductive Health of Adolescent Refugees: A Three-year Analysis

This document offers an assessment of the EBP Fund for Reproductive Health Care and Rights for Adolescent Refugees, established in June 2000. For this purpose, it examines the following issues:

- Vulnerability of adolescents in armed conflicts, which required the creation of the EBP Fund
-  Implementation of the Fund
-  Fund accomplishments
-  Lessons learnt through the implementation of the Fund
- Strategic plan to increase efficiency and coordination, supporting reproductive health of conflict-affected adolescents

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When Forced Migrants Return "Home": The Psychological Difficulties Returnees Encounter in the Reintegration Process

With voluntary repatriation being increasingly promoted by governments, NGOs, and UN agencies as the ultimate solution to refugee's displacement, this paper tries to draw attention to some of the psychological complexities returnees actually encounter. The analysis focuses on the psychological difficulties that follow voluntary repatriation, and addresses the following issues:

- The practice of voluntary repatriation over the last 50 years
- Psychological analysis of voluntary repatriation
- Implications

The paper was originally submitted in
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Is Humanitarianism Being Politicised? A Reply to David Rieff

Humanitarianism is always politicized somehow. It is a political project in a political world. Its mission is a political one - to restrain and ameliorate the use of organised violence in human relations and to engage with power in order to do so. Powers that are either sympathetic or unsympathetic to humanitarian action in war always have an interest in shaping it their way.

The "politicization of humanitarianism" is not an outrage in itself. Ethics and politics are not opposites. There can be good politics, bad politics and some politics that are better than
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Refugees and 'Other Forced Migrants'

One of the inspirations for this Workshop was the recently established 'Higher Education Link', sponsored by the British Council and funded by the Department for International Development (DFID), between Addis Ababa University (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Department of Politics and International Relations and the Faculty of Law) and the University of Oxford (Refugee Studies Centre). The principal aim of the link is to foster collaboration in research and teaching between the linked departments in the field of forced migration and to encourage
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Support Afghan reintegration efforts, say ministers, UNHCR

GENEVA, Oct 1 (UNHCR) - Afghanistan's minister for refugees and his counterparts from Iran and Pakistan meeting in Geneva have called for continued strong support from donor states in order to ensure the successful reintegration of millions of Afghan refugees still outside their homeland.
Speaking at the annual meeting of UNHCR's Executive Committee in Geneva Tuesday, Enayatullah Nazari, Minister for Refugees and Repatriation of the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan, said that his country requires high levels of financial assistance to ensure its reconstruction.
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Displaced people return as central Liberia calms down

GBARNGA, Liberia, Oct 1 (UNHCR) - A UN inter-agency mission dispatched to central Liberia on Tuesday reported that fighting has died down in the region and that displaced Liberians were drifting back to their homes.
The mission was one of several fielded to look into the security situation in the country following the deployment of a West African force of 3,500 men and the departure of President Charles Taylor into exile in Nigeria in August.

Initial assessments show that while the situation remains fragile, it has improved dramatically in large areas

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Liberia: Complex Emergency Situation Report #1 (FY 2004)


U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA)
OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)
Note: This Situation Report updates USAID/OFDA Liberia Situation Report #12, dated September 24, 2003.

Background

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Sudan: IDPs on the edge of peace?

The Global IDP Database of the Norwegian Refugee Council has now updated its country profile on internal displacement in Sudan. A summary is presented below. The Database and the country profile can be accessed at www.idpproject.org, or the complete profile can be sent to you by e-mail on request (idpsurvey@nrc.ch)
Geneva, 1 October 2003 - Sudan is home to the world's largest internally displaced population. An estimated four million people are currently internally displaced, and despite a ceasefire
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Sri Lanka: Repatriation from India by district (Jan 02 to Sep 03)

Map created by the UNHCR GIS Unit - Sri Lanka
Data Sources: UNHCR, Ministry of Resettlement, Rehabilitation, and Refugees, September 2003
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Sierra Leone Displacement

Data Sources:
UNHCR Regional Office - Abidjan  
UNHCR Sierra Leone
OCHA Sierra Leone
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Sri Lanka: IDP movement by district (Jan 02 - Sep 03)

Map created by the UNHCR GIS Unit - Sri Lanka
Data Sources: UNHCR, Ministry of Resettlement, Rehabilitation, and Refugees, September 2003
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Afghanistan + 2 others
UNHCR briefing notes: Liberia, Ingushetia, Afghanistan

This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today's Palais des Nations press briefing in Geneva. Further information can be found on the UNHCR website, www.unhcr.ch, which should also be checked for regular media updates on non-briefing days.
1) LIBERIA

Despite an overall improvement in the security situation in Liberia, hundreds of Liberian refugees continue to flee into Guinea, fearing fighting between government and rebel forces in central Liberia. This week, UNHCR has so far registered 500 Liberian

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Angola + 2 others
Zambia Situation Update: 30 Sep 2003


Main issues
Weather: Normal rainfall is expected over much of Zambia for the coming season

The principal factors taken into account by the Zambia Meteorological Department (ZMD) are the current state of the neutral conditions of the sea-surface temperatures in the Indian, Atlantic and the Equatorial Pacific Oceans.

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Liberia + 1 other
Despite improved security, Liberians trickle into Guinea

MONROVIA, Liberia, Sept 30 (UNHCR) - Hundreds of Liberian refugees are trickling into Guinea despite a general improvement in the security situation in Liberia since President Charles Taylor went into exile last month.
The refugee departures are mainly from central Liberia. Fighting has been reported in the past two weeks between rebels of the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) and Taylor's militias in Bong and Nimba counties. No clashes have been reported in Lofa, but threats of rebel attacks there have prompted people to flee.
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Liberia press briefing 30 Sep 2003

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Guests: Mr. Abou Moussa, Humanitarian Coordinator for Liberia, UNDP, Dr. Omar Khatib, Country Representative, WHO, Mr. Justin Bagirishya, Country Representative, WFP, Mr. Thiru Gnanasambanthar, FAO, Elizabeth Odour-Noah, Deputy Country Representative, Mr. Martin Bucumi, Deputy Country Representative, UNHCR, Mr. Samuel Momanyi Deputy Country Representative, UNICEF, Mr. Farah Muktar, Head of Mission, OCHA

STATEMENT

I will characterize the over all situation in Liberia as a turning point. We are on the eve of the deployment

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OCHA Humanitarian action in Chechnya and Neighbouring Republics (Russian Federation) 16-30 Sep 2003

I. HIGHLIGHTS
Russian Government Starts Compensating for the Lost Property and Housing in Chechnya

On 25 September, the Government of the Russian Federation began paying compensation to Chechen residents for the destroyed housing and property. The compensation amounts to RUR 300,000 (US $9,800) for destroyed housing and RUR 50,000 (US $1,600) for lost property. The Federal Minister for Chechnya, Stanislav Ilyasov, said that the authenticity of the lists of people who had applied for compensation was being checked and that the money had already started to be transferred to Chechen

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Liberia + 1 other
Sierra Leone: Humanitarian Situation Report Sep 2003


KEY EVENTS

  • Yellow Fever outbreak

  • Security Council extends UNAMSIL's mandate

  • UN Agencies and GoSL celebrate World Peace Day

  • Nigerian lawmakers call on UNAMSIL

HUMANITARIAN HIGHLIGHTS

Yellow Fever outbreak

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