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Refugees Magazine Issue 103 (IDPs) - Out of sight, out of mind
1 Mar 1996 The number of internally displaced persons in the Horn of Africa could be as high as 5 million - some 4 million of them in Sudan alone. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 103 (IDPs) - The hidden face of the refugee problem
1 Mar 1996 Although its focus is on refugees, UNHCR has been involved in numerous operations on behalf of internally displaced persons since the early 1970s. Sadly, the humanitarian needs of the world's millions of internally displaced all too often fall into oblivion. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 103 (IDPs) - Danger: safe areas
1 Mar 1996 As the example of Srebrenica showed, care must be taken to avoid naive assumptions about the degree of protection which can be provided by an international presence operating without effective enforcement. But there are some obvious reasons to continue exploring ways in which people's safety can be preserved within their own country. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 103 (IDPs) - So close, yet so far
1 Mar 1996 The agony of six years of civil war is evident everywhere in Liberia, even in the heart of the war-ravaged capital, where hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people try to survive in the midst of continuing violence, poverty and disease. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 103 (IDPs) - Home is where the hurt is
1 Mar 1996 There are an estimated 30 million internally displaced people in the world today - double the number of refugees. In Latin America, for example, there are few refugees, but up to 3 million internally displaced in the region. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 103 (IDPs) - Interview: Dr. Francis M. Deng, advocate for the uprooted
1 Mar 1996 Dr. Francis M. Deng, the U.N. Secretary-General's Representative on Internally Displaced Persons, says it is easy to be "overwhelmed into despair" by the magnitude of the problems of the internally displaced, but stresses that the international community must try to do everything possible to ease their plight. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 103 (IDPs) - Interview: Cornelio Sommaruga, blue hands, Red Cross
1 Mar 1996 Cornelio Sommaruga, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, talks about ICRC's responsibility for protecting and assisting the victims of armed conflict. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 103 (IDPs) - Back to the future
1 Mar 1996 Of all UNHCR programmes involving the internally displaced, former Yugoslavia has perhaps been the most problematic - and by far the biggest and most high-profile - of them all. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 102 (The high cost of caring) - The origins of Delphi
1 Dec 1995 A number of checks and balances are in place to ensure that UNHCR spends its money wisely.