Internally Displaced Persons
Internally Displaced Persons
Internally displaced persons are "persons or groups of persons who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of or in order to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalised violence, violations of human rights or natural or human-made disasters, and who have not crossed an internationally recognised State border."
Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Center
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Nigeria: NEMA Presents Relief Materials to Victims of Lamurde Attack in Adamawa
From AllAfrica.com Dated 20 May 2012 [Leadership] The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA)...
Leaders demand fresh audit of IDPs’. payment
From The Daily Nation Dated 16 May 2012 A Cabinet minister and a member of Parliament have called for fresh vetting of internally displaced people who benefited from the government’s compensation scheme.
Rehabilitation Measures for Internally Displaced Persons
From Web News Wire Dated 15 May 2012 This was stated by Shri Mullappally Ramachandran, Minister of State of Home Affairs in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today. read more
No proper edu facilities for displaced children: Report
From The Nation (Pakistan) Dated 14 May 2012 ISLAMABAD - Educational facilities for children displaced from Khyber Agency owing to military operations are scarce and often inaccessible, educational services along with psychosocial support are urgently required for them as mothers report undesirable change in the children’s behaviour after...
Mau IDPs hold key to how South Rift will vote
From The Daily Nation Dated 5 May 2012 A government operation that resulted in the eviction of thousands of people from Mau forest in 2009 was billed as one to save Kenya’s biggest water tower
Azerbaijani Government Awarded Gold-Field Rights To President's Family
From EurasiaNet Dated 5 May 2012 Copyright show: ...
Bakwit, HR advocates gather for nat’l confab on internal refugees
From Davao Today Dated 27 April 2012 April 24, 2012 Bakwit, HR advocates gather for nat’l confab on internal refugees QUEZON CITY – Some 150 human rights advocates, religious,church people and bakwit, or internal refugees or internally displaced persons (IDP) from Visayas and Mindanao, gathered at the National...
Mututho-link IDPs will not be resettled
From The Daily Nation Dated 24 April 2012 More than 800 people camping at a farm in Nakuru are not genuine Internally Displaced Persons
Resettle all genuine IDPs
From The Daily Nation Dated 17 April 2012 Since the coalition government was formed four years ago, it has agonised over the resettlement of those displaced from their homes and land during the chaos that followed the last elections.
Groups fault reports on poll chaos victims
From The Daily Nation Dated 17 April 2012 Human rights organisations on Tuesday dismissed allegations by a House business committee that politicians were luring internally displaced persons back to camps.
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