This document introduces international law and its uses in the prevention of sex-based and gender-based violence against refugee women. For this purpose, it includes discussions on the following:

- What is international law and which are its sources?
- Is international law binding?
- What international legal bodies exist?
- What constitutes violence against women?
- What are the primary legal documents securing the rights of refugee women?
- Other governmental and non-governmental organizations dealing with refugee women

This paper has been written to meet the need for guidance, expressed by our field colleagues in Africa, on how to introduce and implement HIV/AIDS education in our refugee programmes targeting youth. It is addressed to humanitarian workers in refugee settings, especially UNHCR Community Service Officers, education personnel and the staff of implementing partners working on education related issues. We hope that it will provide you with some ideas and practical inputs on how you can approach the issue of HIV/AIDS in formal and non-formal refugee education programmes.

The Philippines ranks as the third country in Southeast Asia with the most number of internally displaced persons (IDP). According to the report of the US Committee for Refugees (USCR) World Refugee Survey released at the end of 2001, Burma is on top of the list because of the number of people driven from their homes by armed conflict and violations of human rights by the ruling military junta. Indonesia comes next, followed by the Philippines.

The Global IDP Database of the Norwegian Refugee Council released today an update of its country profile on internal displacement in Guinea. The complete country profile can be accessed via Internet (www.idpproject.org) or sent by e-mail on request (idpsurvey@nrc.ch).
As the armed violence in Guinea spirals out of control, not only are hundreds of thousands of refugees finding themselves in the line of fire - but so are thousands of Guinean civilians. Since late last year, repeated incursions from Sierra Leone and

The Global IDP Database of the Norwegian Refugee Council has now posted an updated country profile on internal displacement in Burundi. A summary is presented below. The complete profile can be accessed at www.db.idproject.org or sent to you by e-mail on request (idpsurvey@nrc.ch). It should be noted that little public information about the location and living conditions of internally displaced persons in Iraq was available for this summary. Comments and additional information are welcome and will be included in