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Tag archives for Internally Displaced Persons

Improving Hygiene for Displaced Syrians

Posted by  on Thursday, February 21st 2013     
Using clean water from her family’s new bucket, Haneen* brushes her teeth with the toothbrush received from a USAID partner in Olive Grove Camp (Photo: USAID Partner) *Name changed to protect identity Improving Hygiene for Displaced Syrians

Basic personal hygiene is critical to help prevent the spread of illness and disease among displaced
Syrians. Read more >>

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Stories From the Field: Iraq

Posted by  on Wednesday, October 17th 2012     

Salah Naeem Hanna was forced to flee his home of 40 years because of the sectarian violence that gripped Baghdad in 2006. With his family of four, he moved back to his childhood hometown in the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq.

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USAID Complex Crises Funds Reinvigorate Agriculture in Sri Lanka

Posted by  on Monday, April 23rd 2012     

Farmer-returnees empowered to develop livelihoods, support their families, and participate positively in their communities. Recently, I visited one of the agriculture programs supported by USAID in the northern region of Sri Lanka where the most intense fighting took place between the Sri Lankan security forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). More than [...]

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Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons

Posted by  on Wednesday, March 21st 2012     

(Special Rapporteur Beyani is participating in a roundtable hosted by USAID Deputy Administrator Steinberg on March 22.  USAID supports the work of the Special Rapporteur through the Brookings-London School of Economics (LSE) Project on Internal Displacement.) As a reader of this blog, I invite and challenge you to do more in a personal capacity to [...]

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