The number of internally displaced persons living in sites for the displaced decreased from 145,000 in 170 sites in 2004 to 117,000 in 160 sites in 2005.

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

Almost l million Ugandans have been displaced and forced to live in camps for internally displaced persons.

A number of internally displaced persons have left the camps for the agricultural season.

(e) To improve security in and around the internally displaced persons' camps

Some 500,000 persons were estimated to be internally displaced throughout the country, including displaced Tutsi and more recently displaced Hutu in camps, as well as dispersed persons in the hills away from the main roads.

The conditions in the camps for internally displaced persons are far from perfect.

At the internally displaced person transit sites, water and sanitation facilities are in short supply.

There is a continued need to support an estimated 500,000 people in camps for the displaced.

The IDPs in Kalma said that they would rather die in the camp than go back.

The camp was reportedly looted and the IDPs were robbed of their possessions.

He visited sites of internally displaced persons as well as detention centres.

Children were abducted from schools, playgrounds, farms, and IDP and refugee camps.

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

Many of its residents have lived in camps for internally displaced persons since 1992.

Displaced from Sjeverin area Prijepolje

(h) Cholera in the camps for refugees and internally displaced people

Thirty mobile police stations have been acquired by Norway for use by the African Union (AU) police and will be deployed in some 30 camps and internally displaced person concentrations by the end of June.

On 27 August, in view of the serious concerns raised regarding the situation of the IDPs, the independent expert visited the Jaborona camp, the biggest IDP camp around Khartoum.

However, these efforts have been undermined by a persistent, deep mistrust of the police among the internally displaced population and many non internally displaced civilians.

The camp chairperson explained that they were mostly displaced persons from southern Somalia.

34. The displaced population in Cibitoke province at its peak numbered 100,000 living in camps.

The province currently has an estimated total of around 70,000 displaced persons living in various sites.

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

Fearing a repetition of previous incidents, large numbers of IDPs in the area fled their camps and settlements.

There is a scarcity of employment opportunity in the town, and the food supply in the camp is reportedly inadequate.

Mortar shells misfired and hit civilian homes, displaced persons apos camps, schools and markets.

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

Internally displaced persons

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.

As a result of this conflict, generations of young Azerbaijani women and men have grown up in refugee and internally displaced persons camps.

Guatemalan Standing Committees for Displaced Persons (CONDEG)

The population of the camps for internally displaced persons remained steady at 1.86 million as of 1 March.

Assistance is reaching an increasing number of conflict affected persons in camps for the displaced.

He continued on to the area of Mae Hong Son in order to visit camps of displaced persons from Kayah (Karenni) State.

Furthermore, those who had fled to camps for internally displaced persons continued to face attacks and harassment by militias that operated at the outer boundaries of the camps.

Tensions also erupted after the attack on Wau between the Reizegat and Dinka tribes in the Ad Daein displaced camps, forcing thousands of IDPs to flee their camps.

(a) Situation of displaced persons

Refugees and displaced persons

Internally displaced persons

Internally displaced people

2. Internally displaced persons

B. Internally displaced people

46. On 28 May 1996, rebels allegedly attacked the Butezi camp for displaced Tutsis.

50. On 21 October 1996, rebels reportedly attacked the Buranino displaced persons camp in Butaganzwa commune, Kayanza province.