Burmese refugees: discussion groups

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Description: Discussion and alerts concerning refugees from Burma. Hundreds of thousands of refugees are being driven into neighboring Thailand, India, Bangladesh, and China. Discuss the most needed aid and the best way to provide it. What?s the UNHCR doing? What?s the latest policy of the Thai govt? Want to change it? Visiting Thailand soon? Ask these folks what to take and how to help.
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Description: "...The Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement and the UN Country Task Force on Monitoring and Reporting are working together to shield children from violence in conflict areas. U Win Naing Tun, secretary of the Committee for Preventing Grave Violence against Children in Armed Conflict, said they have drafted a plan to protect children from physical harm and sexual abuse..."
Source/publisher: Myanmar Times
2020-03-20
Date of entry/update: 2020-03-21
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Description: "Humanitarian needs in Myanmar are characterized by a complex combination of vulnerability to natural disasters, food insecurity, armed conflict, inter-communal tensions, statelessness, institutionalized discrimination, protracted displacement, human trafficking and risky migration. In Rakhine, the situation remains tense following the armed attacks and the military operations and violence in 2017 that led to the exodus of over 700 000 people to Bangladesh. In Kachin and Shan states, the escalation of armed conflict caused new and secondary displacements..."
Source/publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
2019-01-01
Date of entry/update: 2019-06-15
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf
Size: 1.64 MB
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