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NEW FUNDING ANNOUNCED: U.S. CONTRIBUTES $24 MILLION FOR RELIEF OF REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND SRI LANKA
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Regulatory Intelligence Data
09-12-2007
Using the Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance (ERMA) Fund, the President
has made $24 million available for use in several large-scale relief efforts
for refugees and internally displaced persons, including $12 million for
Iraq-related humanitarian programs, $10 million to assist Palestinian refugees
in Lebanon, and $2 million for conflict victims and refugees from Sri Lanka.
Funding details are: --An ad...
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Guiding principles on internal displacement
The International Migration Review
; INTRODUCTION- SCOPE AND PURPOSE 1. These Guiding Principles address the specific needs of internally displaced persons worldwide. They identify rights and guarantees relevant to the protection of persons from forced displacement and to their protection and assistance during displacement as well as
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U.S. CONTRIBUTES $250,000 TO UN ASSESSMENT OF AID TO INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS
Regulatory Intelligence Data
; 00-00-0000 The United States will contribute $250,000 towards an assessment of how best to improve the efforts of the United Nations to meet the needs of internally displaced persons. The Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development will each provide $125,000 to the UN
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Asia internal refugees in the spotlight, NATION
The Nation (Thailand)
; The Nation (Thailand) 02-22-2000 A SENIOR UN official for internally displaced persons will attend a three-day regional conference on internal displacement in Asia opening today in Bangkok. The conference will look for more effective solutions to problems of displaced persons in Asia. Millions of
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Report of the workshop on internal displacement in Africa, Addis Ababa, October 19-20, 1998
The International Migration Review
; The workshop was jointly convened by the Brookings Institution (Washington, D.C the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Organization of African Unity (OAU). The primary purpose of the workshop was to focus attention on the problem of internal displacement in Africa and to
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Nowhere to run, no place to hide: until recently the internally displaced were the exclusive responsibility of their own governments. They could be deported, starved to death, or exterminated while the international community stood by. (The Uprooted).
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
; WHEN THE BOMBS STARTED FALLING IN Afghanistan in October 2001, a relatively small number of Afghans could get out--no more than 200,000. Pakistan and Iran sealed their borders and the Taliban blocked mass movements. Only those with the physical strength and resources to hire trucks or donkeys,
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Brookings-SAIS Project on Internal Displacement Releases Report on the Internally Displaced People of Iraq
U.S. Newswire
; WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Among the legacies Saddam Hussein would leave any successor are the one million or more forcibly displaced persons who remain within the borders of Iraq. Over the past thirty years, the government of Iraq has relied upon a policy of deliberate expulsion of
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Brookings and SAIS Form Joint Project to Aid Internally Displaced Persons
U.S. Newswire
; WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Brookings Institution and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) have created a joint project to promote more effective national, regional, and international policies to deal with the crisis of 25 million people displaced within
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Lost in purgatory: the plight of displaced persons in the Caucasus. (Advocacy).
World Policy Journal
; All people forcibly uprooted by political violence are losers, but some are bigger losers than others. We refer to a growing category of refugees known in the chill jargon of humanitarian relief as IDPs, or internally displaced persons. These are people driven from their homes and farms within
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THE PROCESS AND PROSPECTS FOR THE U.N. GUIDING PRINCIPLES ON INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT TO BECOME CUSTOMARY INTERNATIONAL LAW: A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT
Georgetown Journal of International Law
; I. INTRODUCTION In 1992, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights decided to appoint a Representative of the Secretary-General to study the global crisis of internal displacement; Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali asked Dr. Francis Deng to fill the position.1 At the outset, the Representative
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Forgotten ones: (The Forsaken People: Case Studies of the internally displaced and Exodus within borders: an introduction to the crisis of internal displacement).
Harvard International Review
; Abstract: A survey of recent literature on displaced persons is presented. Books discussed include The Forsaken People: Case Studies of the Internally Displaced, edited by Roberta Cohen and Francis M. Deng, and Exodus Within Borders: An Introduction to the Crisis of Internal Displacement, by David
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