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Article: Pools of Yemeni IDPs ignored -- aid groups.
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- UPI Emerging Threats
- Article date:
- November 12, 2009
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Focusing on the internally displaced community seeking shelter in refugee camps in Yemen overlooks the broader picture, international aid groups said.
U.N. and international aid agencies said cultural and lifestyle considerations keep much of the internally displaced community in Yemen away from organized camps.
Officials with the U.N. Refugee Agency said conditions at many of the camps do not make considerations for the conservative position on women.
They are conservative people and their cultural values don't allow for their women to be seen by strangers, Mai Barazi, a UNHCR official in Yemen, told the U.N. humanitarian news agency, IRIN.
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