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Several African nations adopted a document on the rights of the continent's 17 million internally-displaced persons (IDP), refugees and returnees. "The important thing about this convention is that it applies to conflict and climate as causes of displacement," the United Nations High Commissioner...
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- News Source: The New Vision | about 1 month agoThe leaders undertook to address under-development and unemployment as causes of forced displacement on the continent. A total of 46 countries took part in the special summit on refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons in Africa that was...
- News Source: South Africa News | about 1 month agoSeveral African nations adopted a document on the rights of the continent's 17 million internally-displaced persons (IDP), refugees and returnees. "The important thing about this convention is that it applies to conflict and climate as causes of...
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- News Source: Sydney Morning Herald | about 1 month agoThe convention calls on member states to provide special assistance for displaced people with special needs, including the elderly and calls for the prevention of forced displacement. Political upheaval, conflicts and natural disasters have left the...
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- Blog Source: appablog.wordpress.comAfrican Ministers of Foreign Affairs were meeting at an Extraordinary Session within the framework of the AU Special Summit on refugees, Returnees and IDP's in Africa which is being held in Kampala, Uganda from 19 to 23 October 2009. ... It is now
- Blog Source: www.affaires-strategiques.infoRepresentatives from 46 of the 53 member states of the African Union (AU) met in Kampala (Uganda) on Thursday to discuss the plight of African refugees and displaced persons, as well as to propose new measures to decrease their number. ... the
- Blog Source: appablog.wordpress.comIn his closing remarks, President Museveni said he was pleased that the summit had anchored the solutions to the challenges of forced displacement to development and social transformation in Africa. In her closing statement, ...
- Blog Source: appablog.wordpress.comIOM Director General William Swing has welcomed moves by the African Union (AU) to adopt a convention on the protection and assistance of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Africa during a special AU summit on refugees, returnees and IDPs ending
- Blog Source: appablog.wordpress.comThrough the Convention, African leaders will commit themselves to more responsibility, more protection and more assistance of IDP's, those living like refugees in their own countries. Journalists are kindly invited to attend the opening ...
- Blog Source: appablog.wordpress.comIt is with the aim to address forced displacement, which is avoidable by reducing this figure, that the African Union (AU) has organized the Special Summit on Refugees, Returnees and IDP's. ... and Government will sign and adopt the AU Convention
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