ANGOLA

Struggling Through Peace:
Return and Resettlement in Angola

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACRONYMS
MAP OF ANGOLA


1. SUMMARY
   
   
2. RECOMMENDATIONS
To the Government of Angola
To Donor Countries to Angola
To the United Nations Agencies
To the World Bank


3. BACKGROUND
Historical Causes of Displacement in Angola
Angola’s Return and Reintegration Program


4. PROBLEMS IN THE RETURN AND REINTEGRATION OF THE INTERNALLY DISPLACED
Involuntary Returns of Internally Displaced Angolans
Preference for Assisting Former Combatants
Inadequate Protection of Internally Displaced Female Heads of Household
Failure to Issue Necessary Identity Documents
Inadequate Humanitarian Assistance
Responsibility to Protect and Assist Internally Displaced Angolans


5. PROBLEMS IN THE SPONTANEOUS RETURN OF ANGOLAN REFUGEES
Unsafe Conditions and Insufficient Infrastructure to Receive Returnees
Problems of Violence Against Returning Refugee Women and Girls
Deprivation of Identity Documents for Angolan Children
Responsibility to Protect and Assist Returning Refugees


6. PROBLEMS IN THE DEMOBILIZATION AND REINTEGRATION OF FORMER COMBATANTS
Regional Inequities in Treatment
Discrimination Against Women
Responsibility to Protect and Assist Former Combatants


7. CONCLUSION
   
   
8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

August 2003        Vol. 15, No. 16 (A)