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Nepal: Failed implementation of IDP policy leaves many unassisted

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IDP woman and her children in Biratnagar receiving legal assistance from NRC staff. The family fled from Bhojpur in 2003 due to Maoist threats. NRC, 2008
More than three years after the government of Nepal and the Maoists ended their ten-year conflict, up to 70,000 people displaced by the war remain unable or unwilling to return home. Ongoing political crisis has hampered the peace process and the prospects for reconciliation and durable solutions to displacement.

Repeated Maoist commitments to return confiscated houses and land are yet to be honoured in several districts, and internally displaced people (IDPs) from non-Maoist political parties have found it particularly hard to recover property. The government return package has been limited to those officially registered, and in many districts, up to half of IDPs have been unable to register for assistance. (...)

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28 January 2010



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Distant from Durable Solutions, NRC-Nepal, June 2009 (Part 1) / (Part 2) / (Part 3)
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Distant from Durable Solutions: Conflict-Induced Internal Displacement in Nepal, Nepal IDP Working Group, 15 June 2009 (Report) / (Press release)