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Now almost 300,000 IDP's in Afghanistan

By Dave Markland
| March 19, 2010

As far as I can tell, no media outlets whatsoever have picked up on the recent announcement (below, courtesy of a UN news agency) from the UN Secretary-General. The latest figures on internally displaced persons demonstrate the utter disaster which the war in Afghanistan has brought for a wide swath of the population:

IDP numbers up in Afghanistan - UN

KABUL, March 17 (IRIN) - Armed hostilities have boosted the number of internally displaced persons (IDP's) to over 296,000 but an effective humanitarian response is being hampered by insecurity, the UN Secretary-General says in a new report to the UN Security Council...

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Understanding Gulu: A look at life within the camps

Oct 16 2009 - 7:00pm
Oct 16 2009 - 10:00pm

Location

Gallery DK
1332 Queen St. West.
Toronto, ON
Canada
Phone: 416.686.1533
43° 38' 29.8896" N, 79° 25' 53.7744" W
See map: Google Maps

Friday, October 16, Parkdale’s Gallery DK will offer a glimpse into the life of an internally displaced person with “Understanding Gulu: A look at life within the camps,” the first solo-exhibit from Toronto photographer Andrea Smith. Smith’s exhibit is the result of a trip to northern Uganda in 2007 and an extensive tour of IDP camps there, which to this day continue to house around half a million people. For the opening reception, Smith joins forces with GuluWalk, a Toronto initiative that has grown into a worldwide movement for peace, rebuilding and rehabilitation in northern Uganda.

Contact name: 
Eva Salinas
Contact email: 
eva@guluwalk.com
Tags:
africa IDP photography Displaced northern Uganda GuluWalk
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