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IDPs have returned home, but the challenge of reintegration is just beginning
Lack of accurate data gathered in post-return monitoring makes it difficult to assess the extent to which returnees have been able to achieve durable solutions
09 December 2009 | Overview
IDPs returning home, but to ongoing poverty and lack of access to basic services
Two years after violent conflict erupted in Dili in May 2006, some of the 100,000 people who remained displaced in April 2008 have started returning home. About a third of these internally displaced people (IDPs) were in camps in the capital, and the rest with relatives and friends in the districts where they had sought refuge after the violence.
31 October 2008 | Overview
Timor-Leste: Unfulfilled protection and assistance needs hamper the return of the displace
More than a year after riots and fighting rocked Timor-Leste and sent over 150,000 people to seek refuge, the majority of the internally displaced people (IDPs) are still unable or unwilling to return, and remain in camps in and around the capital, Dili, or hosted by friends and families in Dili and in the districts.
07 September 2007 | Overview