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displaced person

a person forced from his home or country, esp by war or revolution
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Zardari said that the issue of rehabilitation of displaced persons was a huge challenge before the nation which should be met through the collective effort of the people, the government and the international community.
They also demanded of the government to instantly begin giving full fledged packages to Bara displaced persons like that of North Waziristan.
A Displaced Person gives the reader the chance to spend another book with Chonkin and Nyura.
By Dan Lieberman Negotiators have continually debated the Middle East crisis without regarding the elephant in the room - the Palestinian displaced persons. Rather than being portrayed as victims, these dispossessed persons are often perceived as perpetrators, as if they caused their own ordeal and should shoulder the responsibility for their fate.
Principle 28 requires the government to help establish the conditions necessary to allow displaced persons to either return to their areas of residence or be resettled voluntarily.
According to Thailand's Foreign Ministry, there are about 102,000 displaced persons fleeing the Myanmar junta living in refugee camps in Thailand along the border with Myanmar.
Farouq said that the Commission was looking beyond supporting displaced persons with relief materials but lifting them out of their present challenges and rehabilitating them economically to be self-reliant.
"At that time, the focus of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees was to provide emergency assistance to the internally displaced persons together with the government of Azerbaijan.
Ahmed al-Zarkouchi, head of al-Saadiyya district, told NINA that the supreme committee supervising the displaced persons file gave the green light to the return of 190 displaced families to their liberated areas in Saadiyya area northeast of Baquba.
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