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01 Mar 2007

Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea: Country Overview (as of 1 Mar 2007)

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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01 Mar 2007

World
Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons - Implementing the 'Pinheiro Principles'

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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?From Rwanda to Bosnia, Sudan to Kosovo, Liberia to Sri Lanka, the critical importance of ensuring the realisation of refugees' and internally displaced persons' right to housing and property restitution has become increasingly recognised. While important steps have been taken in a wide range of post-conflict settings, those with responsibility for housing and property restitution issues, whether they are government officials, staff of international agencies and NGOs or members of local civil society groups, often lack practical guidance on how to best go about
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01 Mar 2007

World
Benchmarks for Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons

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— Inter-Agency Standing Committee
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At the request of the UN, the Representative of the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the Brookings-Bern Project and the Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of International Migration, developed a set of benchmarks for determining when an individual should no longer be considered to be in need of protection and assistance as an IDP.

Following a broadly consultative process, the Benchmarks were adopted in March by the UN's Inter-Agency Standing Committee Working Group, which recommended their incorporation "as
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01 Mar 2007

World
Migration Forcée Revue No. 27 - Les Violences Sexuelles : Arme de Guerre, Entrave à la Paix

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— Forced Migration Review, University of Oxford
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Migration Forcée offre une tribune pour un échange régulier d'informations et d'idée entre chercheurs, réfugiés et déplacés internes ainsi que tous ceux qui travaillent avec eux. Elle est publiée en français, anglais, espagnol et arabe en association avec le Conseil norvégien pour les réfugiés.

Table des matières

La coalition mondiale contre les violences sexuelles, par Armand De Decker
Les responsabilités internationales, par Jan Egeland
L'Union européenne : une approche stratégique, par Lieve Fransen
Résolution 1325 du Conseil de sécurité
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01 Mar 2007

World
Enhanced Protection for Children Affected by AIDS

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— UN Children's Fund
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This paper serves as a companion piece to the widely endorsed document, The Framework for the Protection, Care and Support of Orphans and Vulnerable Children Living in a World with HIV and AIDS. It aims to help translate government commitment into practice, building on the strategies laid out in The Framework. Specifically, this paper articulates the vulnerabilities and protection risks of children affected by AIDS and proposes practical actions to address them, including:

- Recognizing social welfare as part of basic social services, and detailing ways to strengthen this sector
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01 Mar 2007

World
External Evaluation of the Protection Standby Capacity Project (PROCAP)

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— ODI - Humanitarian Policy Group
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The evaluation team assessed PROCAP and its constituent elements against three main criteria: relevance, effectiveness and efficiency. It applied these criteria to the different project elements, including deployment of Senior Protection Officers (SPOs), support to stand-by rosters, training and website development, and the management of PROCAP. In conducting the evaluation, the team drew on PROCAP and other documentation, and on interviews with a wide range of agency and donor staff at field and headquarters levels, including those met during visits to Northern Uganda, Sudan and DRC.
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01 Mar 2007

Central African Republic + 10 others
OCHA Humanitarian Newsmaker: Vol. 1, Issue 1, March 2007

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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In this issue:

- Peace-keepers to the Darfur-Chad-CAR triangle?

- Kenya and the Ethiopian asylum seekers

- Turning the Nairobi Pact into law in the Great Lakes Region

- United Nations agencies to protest against rape in war on the eve of International Women's Day

- Acute Watery Diarrhoea spreads in Ethiopia

- USD 64.6 million to East and Central Africa from the Central Emergency Response Fund

- Banana disease threatens livelihoods in East and Central Africa.

- Some Kenyans see progress towards the Millennium Development Goals-but far from all

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01 Mar 2007

Timor-Leste
Thousands more Timorese become displaced but security improves in capital: UN

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— UN News Service
More than 5,000 additional Timorese have fled to internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps over the past month or so because of the recent violence in the capital Dili, although this is now under control as more United Nations police are patrolling the streets, top UN officials said today.

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General Atul Khare, head of the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT), said the security situation in Dili over the past week has "remained stable," adding there are now more officers in high-risk areas as well as dedicated

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01 Mar 2007

Timor-Leste
European Commission allocates €1.5 million to victims of internal crisis in East Timor

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— European Commission Humanitarian Aid department
The European Commission has allocated a further €1.5 million in humanitarian aid to help around 100,000 people displaced or affected by ongoing instability in East Timor. The funds will be used to meet basic needs and facilitate return or resettlement, over a period of 15 months. All funds are channeled through the Commission's Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO), under the responsibility of Commissioner Louis Michel.

In March 2006 Dili, the capital of East Timor, was rocked by violence. An estimated 100,000 people fled their homes,

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01 Mar 2007

Colombia
Colombia: Corte Constitucional recibe del Gobierno informe sobre lucha contra el desplazamiento

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— Government of Colombia
Gobierno explica cómo se mide el cumplimiento del goce efectivo de los derechos de la población desplazada.

Cuatro billones de pesos ha destinado inicialmente el Gobierno Nacional para garantizar, de aquí al año 2010, una atención efectiva a los desplazados por la violencia.

Bogotá, 1 mar (SNE). El Gobierno Nacional estableció las reglas del juego para medir de manera precisa el cumplimiento del goce efectivo de los derechos de la población desplazada por la violencia, en lo cual invertirá más de cuatro billones de pesos durante el actual período presidencial.

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01 Mar 2007

Cameroon + 1 other
Central African Republic: Complex Emergency Situation Report # 1 (FY 2007)

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— US Agency for International Development
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BACKGROUND

Increasing violence between the Central African Republic Government (CARG) and armed opposition groups, as well as insecurity attributed to Chadian and Sudanese opposition forces and widespread banditry, have displaced an estimated 220,000 people, including 150,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northern CAR and 66,000 refugees in Chad and Cameroon. The 2003 military coup that brought current president Francis Bozizé to power resulted in extensive displacement and damage to infrastructure across the north. Recent violence has exacerbated

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01 Mar 2007

Uganda
Ceasefire ends in Uganda - British Red Cross calls for increased support for over a million displaced

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— British Red Cross
The fragile ceasefire in Northern Uganda ended at midnight last night (28/02/07) leaving the future for millions of Ugandans hanging in the balance. The ceasefire marked a short period of relative peace in a country that has seen a brutal and bloody civil war drive up to 1.7million people out of their homes and into crowded camps in the North and North- East of the country.

Ros Armitage, Conflict Operations Manager at the British Red Cross said: "The humanitarian consequences of the conflict in the north have been immense, made worse by the fact that the crisis

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01 Mar 2007

World + 2 others
Humanitarian Exchange Magazine No. 37 - Humanitarian Responses to Conflicts in Lebanon and the Near East

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— ODI - Humanitarian Practice Network
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The conflicts between Israel and Lebanon and in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) in 2006 led to a significant international humanitarian response. They also again raised concerns about the protection of civilians and breaches of international humanitarian law. In Lebanon the conflict was unexpected and brief, but at its height it displaced a quarter of the population and led to the destruction of villages and infrastructure throughout the south of the country. In oPt the conflict followed a freezing of international aid to the Palestinian
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01 Mar 2007

World
Researching Internal Displacement - State of the Art and an Agenda for the Future

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— Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement
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In March 2007, the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, together with Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of International Migration, convened a conference in Cairo, Egypt, to assess the state of current research in the field of internal displacement.

Representatives from research institutions from around the world shared information on their current research work and then identified both research gaps and methodological problems in the study of IDPs. The meeting then discussed strategies to

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