Crimes of rape and sexual violence were committed with impunity, largely in IDP camps.

They have been forced to leave their home and land to reside in either IDP or refugee camps.

In a deeply worrying new development, camps for internally displaced persons (IDP) are themselves increasingly being attacked by militias.

Tens of thousands more have become night commuters , travelling nightly by foot from IDP camps to urban centres to avoid abduction.

2 Helicopters landed at Lupi, near Pang Wa, close to the Border Mark 5 and Border Mark 6 IDP Camps, dropped Troops and weapons.

Activities in favour of IDPs also included regular visits to IDP camps, joint missions and interviews of IDPs, and cooperation with United Nations peacekeeping missions.

He also noted with concern the attacks on civilians, including in IDP camps, as well as the increased violence and targeting of humanitarian workers in Darfur.

In IDP and refugee camps, communal living and sleeping spaces, insecure and out of the way facilities and dark pathways put women at risk of violence and sexual assault.

Despite the protests of UNICEF and SC UK, however, CEAWAC continued to organize forced returns from IDP camps and other settlements while insisting on financial support for these efforts.

In April 2007, BOSCO was launched as a solar powered, long range wireless computer network covering locations in former Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps across Gulu and Amuru districts in northern Uganda.

In Liberia, for instance, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) supported the establishment of adolescent friendly corners in IDP camps in Liberia, where youth can get information, services and a sense of security.

Large numbers of people were also newly displaced in Uganda, bringing the total IDP population to some two million people, with up to 90 per cent of the entire population in northern Uganda living in camps.

Similar needs have been observed for returning IDP families.

family, compared to 17 per cent of children in the general population . During the mission, the independent expert learned that this widespread sexual violence in IDP camps also fostered a rising concern among aid workers and international organizations about the spread of HIV AIDS.

The mission visited the Shabeele IDP camp, which housed about 440 families.

A new IDP policy adopted by the UN Inter Agency Standing Committee (IASC) in September 2004 seeks to clarify and streamline procedures implementing collaborative planning and action by UN Country Teams so as to enhance IDP protection.

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In 2001, a dedicated IDP Unit was created within OCHA to support the Emergency Relief Coordinator.

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In a visit to the Ajuuran IDP camp, the mission learned that there were 820 families there.

4. Commends those States which have actively engaged in preserving those sites that served as Nazi death camps, concentration camps, forced labour camps and prisons during the Holocaust

The blockade of the refugee camps should be lifted so that his organization could enter the camps.

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A girl runs to save herself from the rain in the biggest internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Kabul.

They work on IDP and refugee cases and, in 2004, many of their cases were related to land issues.

Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) returned to their original village, Sehjanna, after living seven years in an IDP camp in Aramba.

Displaced civilians living in camps continue to report attacks on them by militias or bandits when they leave the camps' surroundings.

The response to the IDP crisis is a collaborative effort under the overall leadership of the Humanitarian Coordinator based in Khartoum.

There are 40 such camps around Kabul.

The IDP camp in Charahi Qambar has around 900 families with no school and only one mobile clinic served by four doctors.

Internally, UNHCR also revisited its procedures and guidelines for its involvement in IDP situations, notably in Afghanistan, Colombia, Sri Lanka and Sudan.

Donor contributions and UNHCR expenditures in support of the IDP response must not reduce contributions or expenditures towards refugee protection and assistance.

Protracted displacement also characterized a great number of IDP situations, particularly those in south eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and the Middle East.

In Chad, camps were moved further from the Sudanese border and refugees still settled along the border counselled to move to the camps.

More than 100,000 still remain in those camps.

Life in camps is demoralizing and ultimately dehumanizing.

The gap between the two camps is vast.

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Life in the camps continues to be unacceptable.

Project beneficiaries also included refugee camps in Pakistan.

Internally displaced (IDP) and refugee women escaping conflict become vulnerable when fleeing alone or with children, unprotected by community members or male relatives.

f) Provide humanitarian assistance including the health needs, especially reproductive and sexual health of women and girls in conflict, refugee, and IDP situations

Cyprus is the latest battleground between the two camps.

Some camps turned into staging posts for armed factions.

Thereafter, the two camps interests and conclusions diverged sharply.