2007年VOA标准英语-Some 25 Million People Internally Displaced Thr
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By Sean Maroney
Washington
23 February 2007
watch International Migration 1 report
Millions of people flee their homes each year to escape war, famine or disaster. The international community helps many of them when they end up as refugees in foreign countries. But when these same people are adrift within their home countries, assistance is harder to provide. VOA's Sean Maroney reports on the debate to better help internally displaced persons.
Refugee camps are the result of four years of fighting in Sudan between Darfur rebels and government-backed militias 2. The United Nations estimates the violence has killed at least 200,000 people and forced millions more from their homes.
UN camp
The U.N. has set up camps like this one in an effort to provide food, water and shelter for the internally displaced. But aid officials say they can only help a fraction of those who actually need it.
There are an estimated 25 million people internally displaced in some 50 countries. The U.N. says it helps only one in four.
There are no international laws that protect internally displaced persons, or "IDPs" for short. The U.N. says it is up to individual countries to care for their own.
Khalid Koser
But Khalid Koser says this is not a solution. He monitors the IDP problem for The Brookings Institution in Washington. He says in many cases countries often persecute 3 their own displaced citizens. "It seems to me there's something of a paradox 4 or a contradiction or a problem in saying to states, 'You are the people who have to develop laws and policies to protect IDPs, even (though) often you're the people who are perpetrating ethnic 5 cleansing 6, who are trying to persecute these people out of existence'."
Uganda is among those countries that have passed specific laws to protect IDPs. But Koser says poor sanitation 7; food shortages and overcrowding are still problems there. "There are acts and there are facts. And the fact that countries like Uganda and Sri Lanka have developed laws is great, but there are still two million people displaced within those countries. So it seems to me there's a real gap between national laws and policies and actually making a difference to the people on the ground."
He says it is up to the international community to make a difference in these people's lives.
- Swallows begin their migration south in autumn.燕子在秋季开始向南方迁移。
- He described the vernal migration of birds in detail.他详细地描述了鸟的春季移居。
- The troops will not attempt to disarm the warring militias. 部队并不打算解除战斗中的民兵武装。 来自辞典例句
- The neighborhood was a battleground for Shiite and Sunni militias. 那里曾是什叶派和逊尼派武装分子的战场。 来自互联网
- They persecute those who do not conform to their ideas.他们迫害那些不信奉他们思想的人。
- Hitler's undisguised effort to persecute the Jews met with worldwide condemnation.希特勒对犹太人的露骨迫害行为遭到世界人民的谴责。
- The story contains many levels of paradox.这个故事存在多重悖论。
- The paradox is that Japan does need serious education reform.矛盾的地方是日本确实需要教育改革。
- This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏，这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
- The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。