C. Returns of displaced persons

Composite flows and facilitation of return

C. Return of displaced persons 87 93 20

III. CONSEQUENCES OF REFUGEE AND RETURNEE MOVEMENTS

Returns of refugees and displaced persons

RELATING TO REFUGEES AND DISPLACED

The Returnee and Displaced Persons Advisory Bureau provided legal counselling to 54,258 returnees and internally displaced persons in the Missan governorate.

Refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons

Return of refugees and internally displaced persons

Additional resources will be required to support the return of a further 64,000 internally displaced persons.

Recalls that the Abkhaz side bears a particular responsibility to protect the returnees and to facilitate the return of the remaining displaced population

Return and transport assistance had been distributed to over 145,000 IDPs from an anticipated return caseload of 314,000.

RELATING TO REFUGEES, RETURNEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS AND HUMANITARIAN

A. Return of refugees and displaced persons

B. Return of refugees and displaced persons

Liberian refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons

Recalls that the Abkhaz side bears a particular responsibility to protect the returnees and to facilitate the return of the remaining displaced population

A database of the displaced population is needed, including information on the demand to return and the levels of returns.

Somali refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons

Return all mail addresses, not just the preferred one

The best solution to the crisis was the return of displaced persons and the repatriation of refugees.

As at 1 June, some 155,000 internally displaced persons had been assisted in returning to their places of origin, while a further 100,000 have returned independently.

Displaced populations are more vulnerable to pressures to return.

Sierra Leonean refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons

At the same time, voluntary returns took place some 150,000 IDPs returned to southern Sudan in the first quarter of 2005, adding to the half million who returned in 2004.

Despite the willingness of an increasing number of refugees and displaced persons to return home, pockets of entrenched political opposition to the right to return continue to block larger scale returns.

10.2 States shall allow refugees and displaced persons who wish to return voluntarily to their former homes, lands or places of habitual residence to do so.

EC 48 SC CRP.29 Composite Flows and the Relationship to Refugee Outflows, Including Return of Persons not in Need of International Protection, as well as Facilitation of Return in its Global Dimension

In addition, up to 50,000 IDPs could return home.

This year was expected to be a year when large numbers of refugees and displaced persons would return.

In addition to the operational mechanisms supporting spontaneous movements, three additional activities are planned for facilitated returns registration, transport assistance and establishing a categorization system for areas of return.

The programme for the reintegration of returnees and internally displaced persons has extended its operations into Puntland .

In the past year, Croatia had successfully repatriated refugees and returned displaced persons to their homes.

The return of internally displaced persons to their places of origin continue to take place.

The number of returns of displaced persons is still disappointingly low.

PERSONS AND HUMANITARIAN QUESTIONS

Deeply concerned by the massive flow of refugees, returnees and other displaced persons in Central Africa,

As of 1 March, 67,644 internally displaced persons had returned to their counties of origin and had been provided with return packages.

However, she commended the UNICEF contribution to the return, repatriation and reintegration of IDPs and refugees, while noting that UNICEF should consider providing assistance to those IDPs who chose not to return at this time.

The focus on voluntary repatriation for refugees and return of IDPs continued throughout the reporting period, with 330,000 African refugees returning home in 2004.

Returns of the displaced have continued since early 2004, particularly in the southern provinces, and are expected to increase in 2006.

The agency had estimated that some 200,000 refugees and displaced persons would return in 1997, but by the end of August the actual number was some 83,000 persons.

90. Despite the agreement on the Joint Operational Procedures for Return, the Special Rapporteur remains deeply concerned regarding the return of displaced persons.

Draft resolution A C.3 58 L.37 Rev.1 Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa

The return of displaced Serbs now living in Croat houses in the Eastern Slavonia region is seen as a precondition for the return to the region of Croat displaced persons.