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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)
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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 presents a serious obstacle to durable solutions and the restoration of justice. The destruction, occupation and confiscation of abandoned property violate the rights of such persons, prolong their displacement and complicate peace-building efforts.

The restoration of legal rights and physical possession of properties through restitution, or the provision
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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 firewood, they risk being raped, beaten, even killed. The longer a camp exists-the average long-term refugee situation lasts 17 years-the farther they must travel to gather wood, increasing the risk of attack.

Firewood collection also exacerbates environmental degradation and burning wood indoors releases toxic smoke, causing respiratory infections that kill more people every year-especially
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RDC : L'ONU transporte de la nourriture pour des déplacés dans le nord-ouest

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UN News Service
Les Nations Unies ont transporté cette semaine de l'aide alimentaire destinée à des milliers de Congolais déplacés dans le nord-ouest de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC), o=F9 des affrontements ethniques ont poussé 130.000 personnes à fuir leur domicile.

"En raison des affrontements actuels dans la région, il est difficile d'apporter de l'assistance alimentaire à ceux qui en ont le plus besoin", a dit le directeur du PAM en RDC, Abdou Dieng. Il a ajouté que les distributions de nourriture seraient élargies si les conditions de sécurité s'amélioraient.

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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 4.00pm. Travel no longer requires authorization. However, the transport of goods will continue to take place through vehicle convoys and standard registration processes. The UN is consulting with the relevant government authorities to clarify use of the A9 road for UN/INGO vehicles.

- On 27 December, the Governor of the

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Kenya + 2 others
UNHCR Kenya Operation weekly situation update (week ending 01 Jan 2010)

Refugee Influx

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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 to a consist tread of security threat warnings emanating from Somalia suggesting the potential targeting of the UN and or UNHCR in Kenya. This lead to a tightening of security procedures within compound security and increased coordination between management and security in preparation for any possible critical incidents. Activities and staff levels in all offices remained

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Pakistan: Weekly Morbidity and Mortality Report - IDP hosting and conflict affected districts, NWFP, week 53, 26 Dec 2009 - 1 Jan 2010

Highlights:

- During the Epidemiological week 53, 2009, one alert for suspected measles was received and responded accordingly.

- During the week, 436 health facilities reported 114,025 patient consultations through the DEWS network

- Acute Respiratory Tract Infections (ARI) continues to be the leading cause of morbidity, with a total of 42,423 consultations (37% of total consultations) in the IDP hosting and conflict affected districts of NWFP.

- Acute Diarrhoea reported in 6,417 (6%) of the total consultations in all age groups, Diarrhoea accounts for 10%

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A Time Between: Moving on from internal displacement in northern Uganda

Background

The roots of the conflict in Northern Uganda fundamentally date back to 1986, when Ugandan President Tito Okello, an Acholi by tribe, was overthrown by the National Resistance Army (NRA) of Yoweri Museveni. Numerous insurgencies resulted in Acholiland, with the most destructive being a rebel movement called the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) led by Joseph Kony. The LRA has since become notorious for their abductions, murders, and seemingly inane terrorization of Northern Uganda.

The Government of Uganda's policy of

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India + 9 others
South Asia and East Africa: Surviving the Tsunami - Track the waves

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Somalia: HRF Supported Projects, 2009 (as of 31 Dec 2009)

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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Sudan: Reported cumulative figure of displacement in 2009 (as of 31 Dec 2009)

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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Myanmar: Pipelines and People (as of Dec 2009)

Note: Map title modified original map title: "Burma: pipelines and peoples".
Note: Map date estimated.
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Pakistan: UNHCR helps South Waziristan's displaced in neighbouring districts

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan, December 31 (UHCR) - Death came out of the night sky as Musa Khan and his family cowered in their simple village home in Pakistan's volatile South Waziristan district a month ago.

They were caught in the crossfire as government troops clashed with militants as part of a new military push in the rugged border region. "It was around 9:00 p.m. when our home was hit by mortar fire. My 50-year-old father was killed," the young man told UNHCR staff at Indus Colony in Dera Ismail Khan district, where

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UN receives pledge to respect refugee rights from Central African rebel leader

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UN News Service
The force commander of United Nations peacekeepers in the Central African Republic (CAR) has been assured by the leader of a major armed group that it will respect the rights of refugees amid heightening tensions in the country's northeast, it was announced today.

Blue helmets serving with the UN's peacekeeping mission in CAR and Chad (MINURCAT) have been protecting a camp of refugees in northeastern CAR since an attack in mid-December - apparently by bandits - left three people dead on a nearby road, including two rebel Union des Forces Démocratiques et du Rassemblement (UFDR) members.

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Sudan: USAID Humanitarian Assistance in Review, 1988 - Present

Since 1983, conflict, displacement, and insecurity have led to an ongoing complex emergency in Sudan. For 21 years, Sudan experienced Africa's longest conflict, during which fighting, famine, and disease killed more than 2 million people and displaced approximately 500,000 people to neighboring countries and 4 million others within Sudan. Humanitarian agencies began to provide emergency assistance in 1988, following famine, significant displacement, and heightened conflict between Government of Sudan (GoS)-supported forces and the southern-based Sudan People's Liberation Army.