Shelter Centre

Source: IRIN Inadequate healthcare is just one of many challenges facing the 16,200 refugees in this sprawling camp in western Uganda, which is served by a single doctor.

Source: UNHCR UNHCR warmly welcomes the Republic of Uganda's ratification of the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention). This ...

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - Switzerland Kampala (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today launched its last seed distribution in northern Uganda. Just ahead of the new planting season, over 58,000 formerly displaced people will be benefiting from the operation. Each family is to receive 28 kg of groundnut, cereal and vegetable seed, which is enough to plant approximately 1 hectare of land.

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - Switzerland Kampala (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today launched its last seed distribution in northern Uganda. Just ahead of the new planting season, over 58,000 formerly displaced people will be benefiting from the operation. Each family is to receive 28 kg of groundnut, cereal and vegetable seed, which is enough to plant approximately 1 hectare of land.

Date: 15 Feb 2010
Source: ICRC

Source: UNHCR UNHCR and its partners have been building protected water sources in northern Uganda to help ensure the sustainable return of thousands of people to their homes.

Source: UNHCR In Kampala, Uganda, African leaders are expected to sign today a groundbreaking legal framework that for the first time codifies the rights of people displaced within their own countries. If ...

Source: IRIN Civil society and government officials are gathered in the Ugandan capital of Kampala to discuss the Convention on the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Africa and a declaration on refugees, returnees and IDPs.

Date: 21 Oct 2009
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Source: UNHCR Government ministers from across Africa gather in Kampala, Uganda, to address the challenges of forced displacement confronting the continent.

Source: IRIN The imminent closure of internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in northern Uganda is causing concern among HIV-positive residents, who fear they may not have access to vital health services when they return to their villages.

More than a million Ugandans driven from their homes by decades of violent conflict are gradually moving back to their homeland in the north of the country thanks to an innovative United Nations-backed farming project, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said today.Original article

Date: 28 Aug 2009
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre Since the signing of a Cessation of Hostilities Agreement between the government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army in 2006, about two thirds of the 1.8 million IDPs who lived in camps at the height of the crisis have returned to their areas of origin.

Date: 11 Aug 2009
Source: ICRC

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - Switzerland Kampala (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has launched a seed distribution campaign to help almost 73,000 formerly displaced people (IDPs) in northern Uganda ahead of the new planting season.

Source: UNHCR Since relative peace returned to northern Uganda in 2006 after more than two decades of conflict, some 80 percent of the internally displaced civilians have returned home.

Source: Humanitarian Practice Network The vast majority of displaced people in DRC find refuge, not in camps, but with local families. In this way, the crisis in DRC differs markedly from emergencies in other parts of Africa, such as Darfur and Northern Uganda, where most displaced people have gathered in camps.

Source: IRIN Allan (not real name) was 10 when he was abducted in 1999 by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) from a refugee camp in Adjumani, northern Uganda.

Source: Human Rights Watch (New York) - The Tanzanian and Ugandan governments should ensure that refugees living in camps due to close on June 30 and 31, 2009 are not forcibly returned to their home countries and are ...