21 March 2006

New IDP Reports

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and the Refugee Law Project have issued a report examining the extent to which the recommendations of the former UN IDP Special Representative regarding the internal displacement situation in Uganda have been implemented. A press release provides a brief summary of the report, "Only Peace Can Restore the Confidence of the Displaced" (March 2006).

The Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement has posted documents/statements from two recent conferences:
- Panel on Internal Displacement and the Marsh Arabs of Iraq (1 March 2006)
- UNDP Internally Displaced Persons Conference, Ankara (23 Feb. 2006)

More information about the latter conference is available in UNDP Turkey's newsletter. As the IDMC reports, the Turkish government has launched a national IDP framework which is fairly consistent with the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.

IDMC also reports that Nepal has plans to adopt a new IDP policy in line with the UN Guiding Principles. Earlier this year, the country's Supreme Court ordered the government to provide relief to displaced persons.

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