The situation along the borders of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Such programmes were being implemented in Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Investigations into such allegations are ongoing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia and Haiti in particular.

Since the last report, Timor Leste, Liberia, Mauritania and the Syrian Arab Republic have become parties to the Convention.

This UNHCR FAO collaboration is already targeting situations in Burundi, Chad, Liberia and Sudan.

Country mandates include or have included Afghanistan, Iraq, the Sudan, Somalia, Liberia and the Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967.

The only territorial units resembling those that exist today were Ethiopia, Liberia, and South Africa.

In Africa, large scale repatriation of refugees has been ongoing in Sierra Leone, Angola, Burundi, Eritrea and Liberia.

Although significant progress has been achieved in Sierra Leone and Liberia, the West Africa region still hosts more than 400,000 refugees.

Countries across Africa including Ghana, Liberia, Mozambique, Rwanda, and Uganda are showing early signs of success.

By 17 July, the total number of suspected cases in the country stood at 442, overtaking the number in Guinea and Liberia.

The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court has been ratified by Burkina Faso, Burundi, the Congo, Guyana and Liberia and, in 2005, by the Dominican Republic and Kenya (99 ratifications).

At least 20 UNICEF country offices have reported high incidences of such exploitation, including Angola, Burundi, Liberia, Morocco, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Uganda in Africa.

A financial package conditioned on political agreements may seem ambitious. But there are many precedents, including the post conflict packages agreed for Sudan, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.

As of June, 2013, about 8000 Indian UN peacekeepers, both men and women, are deployed in nine missions, including Congo, South Sudan, Liberia, UNDOF, Haiti, Lebanon, Abeyi, Cyprus and Cote de Ivoire.

In 2003 2004, Albania, the Czech Republic and Uruguay acceded to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, and Albania, Lesotho and Liberia acceded to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

It has contributed its experience in disaster mitigation and post conflict assistance in Afghanistan, Iraq, Timor Leste, Liberia, the West Bank and Gaza, countries affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami and the Sudan.

Rape has been widespread in recent conflicts in such diverse places as Bosnia, Cambodia, Liberia, Peru, Somalia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone, and continues today in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Sudan, amongst other places.

In addition to the existing programmes in Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Burundi and Liberia, new programmes include large return situations in Angola, Somalia ( Somaliland ) and southern Sudan, as well as on a smaller scale in Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gabon.

Major IDP returns, in addition to those within Afghanistan, were in Sri Lanka (34,000), Liberia (33,000), Russian Federation (19,000) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (18,000).

In 2004, Benin, Cape Verde and Liberia ratified the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, of 2000.

In the financial sector, Europe (United Kingdom, Netherlands and Belgium) and other economies such as the Netherlands Antilles, Liberia and other tax haven locations emerged as the most important destinations for OFDI in 1996.

The food shortage could also jeopardize the return of refugees in places such as Afghanistan and Liberia. Her Government could not continue its disproportionately high share of food aid programming it called on other countries to rise to the challenge.

OHCHR's field offices and the human rights components of peacekeeping missions in a number of other countries, including Afghanistan, Burundi, Colombia and Liberia, also devoted substantial attention to IDP issues.

Uruguay and the Czech Republic acceded to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Statelessness Persons during the reporting period, as did Lesotho and Liberia to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, bringing the number of States party to these conventions to 57 and 29 respectively.

Provisional figures for other refugee returns during 2004 included those to Burundi (90,000), Angola (90,000), Iraq (59,000), Liberia (57,000), Sierra Leone (26,000), Somalia (18,000), Rwanda (14,000), Sri Lanka (10,000), Eritrea (10,000).