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This page aims to provide information about protection coordination in humanitarian operations at the global and country levels in order to assist protection actors on the ground to ensure a more effective and predictable response to protection.

Protection covers a wide range of activities that are aimed at ensuring respect for the rights of all individuals, regardless of their age, gender or social, ethnic, national, religious or other background. This requires a collaborative and coordinated response by various national and international actors with diverse mandates, expertise and experience.

In Sri Lanka, the IDP Protection Working Group was established by UNHCR in 2006 to serve as an Inter-Agency forum to bring actors together to discuss protection issues related to conflict IDPs and returnees at a national level. The Working Group aims to strengthen collaboration between agencies, identify needs and gaps, and advise the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL), the IASC and UN Country Team on protection issues. The IDP Protection Working Group has strong links with the IDP protection fora in the Districts and reports on a regular basis to the IASC. The IDP Protection Working Group’s membership consists of both UN and non-UN actors.


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Contacts

UNHCR
97 Rosmead Place, Colombo 07
Sri Lanka
Tel: +94 11 268 3968 | fax: + 94 11 268 3971
Email:lkacoweb@unhcr.org
UNICEF
5 Gitanjali Place
Colombo 3, Sri Lanka
Tel:2555270 (6 lines)
Email: colombo@unicef.org
   

 

Reference Documents  
   
Info leaflets for IDPs Returning Home
English - Sinhala - Tamil
Conflict-Related Internal Displacement in Sri Lanka
(April 2006 – April 2007)
English - Sinhala - Tamil
   
Protection of Conflict-Induced IDPs: Assessment for Action 2008- UNHCR (Provisional Release)
Handbook for the Protection of the Internally Displaced Persons 2007 (Provisional Release)
   
Handbook for the Protection of the Internally Displaced Persons 2004 - UNOCHA Measuring Protection by Numbers-2006 Release - UNHCR
   
Protecting refugees and the role of UNHCR-2007-2008 Eliminating Violence against Children -2007- UNICEF
   
Beyond Child Labour, Affirming Rights - 2001- UNICEF Helping Children Cope with the Stresses of War: A Manual for Parents and Teachers-2000 - UNICEF
   
Guide to the Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict- 2003- UNICEF The State of the World's Children 2006 - Excluded and Invisible- UNICEF
   
   
IDP Protection Working Group - Terms of Reference
IDP Protection Working Group - Protection Advocacy Strategy
 
Meetings
IDP Protection Working Group - Agenda 22 May 2008
IDP Protection Working Group - Agenda 10 June 2008
IDP Protection Working Group - Agenda 10 July 2008