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2012 Sees Record Number of Internally Displaced The number of people displaced within their own countries by armed conflict, violence and human rights violations totaled nearly 30-million in 2012. Many of the newly displaced were in Syria and the eas

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 19 October 2007 The UN refugee agency says it has begun transferring people who have been internally displaced by clashes in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from makeshift settlements to a new camp. The UNHCR say

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 11 September 2007 The U.N. refugee agency reports the first two out of 40 camps for internally displaced people are to be closed Tuesday in Uganda's northern Lango region as most of the IDPs there have gone home. The UNHCR says

VOA标准英语2012--UN Seeks Extra Funding for DRC Displaced

UN Seeks Extra Funding for DRC Displaced Life goes on at a displaced peoples camp on the outskirts of Goma, North Kivus capital. Children troop to the schoolhouse singing Lets go to school so we can learn religion, arithmetic and French. At night the

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VOA标准英语2012--Congolese Displaced on the Move Again

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The United Nations estimates there are about 250,000 child soldiers around the world, and millions more that are victims of armed conflict. Challenges outweigh positives Despite this hapless situation, the U.N. Secretary-General's Special Representat

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Internally Displaced Persons

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今天我们要学的词是 displaced. Displaced 颠沛流离的。U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called the current refugee crisis, with over 70 million displaced people, totally uncontrollable. 联合国秘书长潘基文说，目前7000多万人

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By Noel King El Fasher, Sudan 05 June 2006 Sudanese children collect water from a well in the village of Brikatouly in South Darfur, Sudan The international community is pressing the parties in Sudan'

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 06 November 2007 The U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) says a team of aid workers that traveled during the weekend to Afgooye, a small town west of Mogadishu, found thousands of newly displaced Somalis living in extremely harsh condi

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The U.N. refugee agency reports more than 200,000 people have been displaced by the conflict in northern Yemen. It says the growing number of displaced is straining the ability of aid agencies to shelter and care for those forced to flee their homes.

学个词 Learn a Word-VOA英语教学 2928 displaced

今天我们要学的词是 displaced. Displaced 形容词，无家可归的，颠沛流离的。According to the UN refugee agency, there are about 3.9 million internally displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 联合国难民机构说，

VOA常速英语2007年-Congo Fighting Threatens 15,000 Displaced Civil

By Selah Hennessy Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo 07 December 2007 Government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo are making military gains against rebel fighters in the east. But military victories are pushing combat north, towards displac