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Assessment of human rights issues in the immediate aftermath of the Boxing Day tsunami.  Meetings in Sri Lanka and Thailand assessed the specific situations in these countries; they were particularly timely, coming at the transition between emergency response and reconstruction.

Concerns include access to assistance, discrimination in aid provision, enforced relocation, sexual and gender-based violence, recruitment of children into fighting forces, loss of documentation, safe and voluntary return or resettlement, and issues of property restitution.

Date: 
2005
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34
Coverage: 
SE Asia
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