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- Procedures followed or measures taken to ensure such safety
- The state of being free from danger or threat
- the state of being free from danger or injury; “we support the armed services in the name of national security”
- freedom from anxiety or fear; “the watch dog gave her a feeling of security”
- The safety of a state or organization against criminal activity such as terrorism, theft, or espionage
- defense against financial failure; financial independence; “his pension gave him security in his old age”; “insurance provided protection against loss of wages due to illness”
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- keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance; “we are monitoring the air quality”; “the police monitor the suspect’s moves”
- admonisher: someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided
- An instrument or device used for observing, checking, or keeping a continuous record of a process or quantity
- A person operating such an instrument or device
- proctor: someone who supervises (an examination)
- A person who observes a process or activity to check that it is carried out fairly or correctly, esp. in an official capacity
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- nine: the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one
- nine: denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten
- In mathematics, the repeating decimal 0.999 which may also be written as 0.9, 0.9? or 0.(9), denotes a real number that can be shown to be the number one. In other words, the symbols 0.999 and 1 represent the same number.
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UNHCR News Story: Displaced Chadians rush home before rain
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Displaced Chadians rush home before rain
KOUKOU, Chad, June 6 (UNHCR) – Hundreds of displaced Chadians are racing against time and the elements to return to their villages before the start of seasonal rains.
Some 1,086 internally displaced people (IDPs) have been assisted home on UNHCR-organized trucks from the Dar Sila and Assoungha regions of eastern Chad since the agency started facilitating returns on May 21. Many more are anxious to make the journey as sporadic rains herald the onset of the rainy season that will render roads impassable.
Most of the IDPs originate from eastern Chad’s Sila and Ouaddai regions near the border with Sudan’s restive Darfur region. In 2006, the conflict in West Darfur spilled across the border into Chad and fighting erupted between ethnic groups over the use of land and water. Whole communities fled as villages were burnt and crops destroyed. Some 180,000 displaced people found refuge in the Dar Sila and Assoungha regions, where the UN refugee agency and its partners have been working to reduce tensions and promote peaceful co-existence.
The situation improved in early 2010 with the signing of a normalisation agreement between Chad and Sudan and the deployment of a joint border force to ensure security. Encouraged by these developments, an estimated 50,000 IDPs returned to their villages on their own last year.
Since then, nearly 4,500 IDPs in the Koukou area of Dar Sila have asked UNHCR for transport assistance to return home in time to cultivate their fields before the rains start. Assessments found that only about half of their villages were conducive to return in terms of security and the availability of basic social services such as water supply, health care and education. Another 9,000 IDPs in the Farchana area of Ouaddai are also wishing to return.
A total of 12 return convoys have left eastern Chad for villages such as Borota and Tiero Marena in the last two weeks. UNHCR plans to help as many IDPs as possible to return home in time to start planting activities before the heavy rains start, but the agency is constrained by logistical problems such as a lack of trucks and muddy roads.
The challenges do not end there. One group of IDPs from the village of Chargaya Hashaba said their houses had been completely destroyed by the Janjaweed Arab militia. They returned to nearby Borota, where basic services are available, but will go and cultivate their fields back in their village a short distance away.
"I’m very happy to have returned to my place of origin," said a returnee woman. "After six years of living in uncertainty and temporary shelters, the return to Borota represents for me my own chance to start a new life and build something solid that will last long."
Regardless of whether they returned on UNHCR trucks or on their own, all returning IDPs receive the same assistance. The local authorities give them land to farm and build homes on, while the World Food Programme provides months of food rations and UNHCR provides relief items to help them restart their lives.
"The community appointed a reception committee, they showed us where the wells are and where we could build our houses," said another returnee. "We feel safe and very welcome here. We need tools and seeds to start cultivating our fields."
Stefano Severe, UNHCR’s Representative in Chad, noted, "It is good news hearing that all returnees were satisfied with the land allocated to them. This gesture from the local authorities is a good signal and encourages us to continue efforts to provide assistance in areas of return, for instance by reinforcing traditional conflict resolution mechanisms and playing a catalytic role to support the transition towards development."
While many IDPs cannot wait to go home, many others are hesitant and choose to wait and see if conditions improve back home.
Socio-economic conditions are a main challenge for large-scale returns. To promote reintegration, UNHCR is targeting longer-term projects in major areas of return. This involves building shelter, pursuing conflict resolution, promoting human rights and monitoring protection in the villages of return. Aid and development agencies are also working alongside the Chadian government on projects involving water and sanitation, schools and health centres, nutritional follow-up and agriculture.
By Delphine Marie in N’Djamena, Chad
UNHCR News Story: UNHCR and Pakistan government launch major survey on Afghan refugees
UNHCR / Q. Khan Afridi / 2011
UNHCR and Pakistan government launch major survey on Afghan refugees
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, September 13 (UNHCR) – An ambitious project to survey the world’s largest refugee population has been launched by UNHCR and the government of Pakistan.
The survey aims to capture extensive information on the challenges faced by the 2 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan, as well as their contribution to the country’s economy. By responding to questions on their livelihood, health, social conditions, legal and other issues, Afghan refugees will have the opportunity to influence government policy and programmes designed to manage a refugee situation that goes back more than 30 years.
The Population Profiling Verification and Response (PPVR) survey is being carried out by UNHCR implementing partners Basic Education for Awareness Reforms and Empowerment (BEFARe) and Enterprise for Business and Development Management (EBDM).
Following a trial phase last year, the survey was formally rolled out recently with survey teams going door to door in 25 districts in all the four provinces of Pakistan. It will continue until the end of 2011, by which time several hundred thousand Afghans are expected to have taken part.
Two person male and female survey teams are going door to door to collect information on Afghan households and communities in cities, rural areas and camps. The data is collected and entered in the field through laptop computers, said Khawar Khan Mohmand, an assistant project manager at BEFARe.
"This is an important chance for Afghans to let policymakers know about their current concerns, their plans for the future and contributions they are making to their host country. We strongly encourage them to take part in the process," said Maya Ameratunga, UNHCR’s deputy representative in Pakistan.
The data gathered in the survey will inform the Pakistan government’s Afghan Management and Repatriation strategy, which will introduce alternative stay arrangements for Afghans in Pakistan, such as visas and permits, by the end of 2012.
The home of Abdul Basir, a 63-year-old Afghan refugee and community leader living in Rawalpindi, adjacent to the capital Islamabad, was one of many recently visited by the survey teams. He told them that he and other Afghans are optimistic the survey will yield results that will enable a more targeted approach to addressing the concerns of the Afghans refugees in Pakistan.
Responding to the surveyors’ questions, he said that despite holding a masters degree, he supports his six-member family by running a shop at a local market in Islamabad, earning between 9,000 and 10,000 rupees a month, or a little more than one hundred US dollars. Most of that, he told the team, is spent on rent on his house and shop.
”The money I make is hardly enough for our survival," he said. "Relatives and friends abroad send me about 15,000 rupees (US$170) a month, which I use to feed my family and pay the school fees of my two sons. I can’t afford to admit my two daughters into school."
As an elder of the Afghan community, Basir helps the survey team to identify Afghan families living in Pindora, a congested area in the centre of Rawalpindi.
Basir said he misses Afghanistan but cannot go back because of the security situation, the lack of health and education facilities as well as the poor employment opportunities.
By Qaiser Khan Afridi In Islamabad, Pakistan
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