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208 E.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 391 (“She has no
ID card because UNHCR had finished giving them
out.”)
209 diCk, resPonding to ProtrACted refugee
210
situAtions, supra note 207, at 25-27.
TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 436.
211 E.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 433. 309, 382.
212 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 641.
213 Id.
214 Id.
215 Id.
216 Interview with Sebastian Nerault, clinic
administrator, and Elise Nerault, physical therapist,
St. Gregory Clinic, Buduburam, Ghana (Sept. 30,
2007). See also Peter M. Crosta, Fighters in Liberia
More Likely to Have Mental Health Disorders After
Exposure to Sexual Violence, med. news todAy (Aug.
14, 2008), http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/
217
articles/118172.php (describing a mental health
study conducted in Liberia in May 2008, which
found that 40% of Liberians have major depressive
disorder, 44% have PTSD, 8% met criteria for social
dysfunction).
TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 587.
218 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 252.
219 Id.
220 Id.
221 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 170.
222 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 592.
223 E.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 162, 164, 166,
422, 424, 463, 467, 474, 494, 529, 539, 541, 555, 564,
570, 606, 614, 618, 633, 784, 900, 934, 935, 936, 1114,
1123, 1124, 1126, 1138, 1139, 1145, 1268, 1451, 1497,
1501, 1702, 1716.
224 E.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 238, 249, 252,
282, 310, 388, 407, 419, 463, 539, 555, 564, 570, 618,
624, 900, 935, 970, 1123, 1124, 1138, 1139, 217, 246,
290, 416, 431, 436, 478, 480, 485, 521, 592, 599, 602,
605, 614, 627, 688, 695, 727, 775, 803, 898, 933, 976,
1127, 1134, 1149, 1153, 1155, 1298, 1672, 1706, 1715,
972.
225 As of October 2007, the World Food Programme
disbursement program consisted of a malnutrition
program, serving 400 children, and a monthly rations
program, serving 7,700 people. Children in the
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malnutrition program were referred to the program
by the clinic or by the camp social worker. Eligibility
for the monthly rations program was determined
by a committee of leaders and organizational
representatives who assessed each individual’s
vulnerability. The number of individuals allowed in
the program was capped at no more than 9,500, and
the number actually served apparently changed with
budgetary fluctuations, at times dropping to as few as
4,700 individuals at the end of a budget cycle. Factors
leading to vulnerability for purposes of food aid
included having no income or remittance, consuming
one meal or less in a day and having limited assets.
For the purpose of the vulnerability assessment,
“mobile phones, generators, or television sets were
to be considered as the bench mark for determining
whether a person was well off or in need of food
assistance.” Moreover, the following groups were
to be considered vulnerable: malnourished children
(including at most three family members); womenheaded
households without a member earning
income or carrying on economic activity; HIV/AIDS
affected households, infected breadwinner without a
household member earning an income or engaged in
economic activity; isolated/stigmatized social cases
like teenage single parents; people with physical
and mental disabilities without support; elderly
man/woman (65 years or older) without support
(without household member earning an income or
engaged in an economic activity); unaccompanied
minors/abandoned children; lactating and pregnant
women without support, and/or without a member
earning an income or engaged in an economic
activity. Criteria for the Selection of Beneficiaries
in Buduburam Refugee Settlement (on file with
the author); Interview with Eugene Sekpeh, WFP/
NCS/UNHCR Food Aid Distribution Coordinator,
Buduburam, Ghana (Oct. 3, 2007).
226 E.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 46 (noting she
only receives food rations for 3 out of 12 people
in her household); TRC Diaspora Statement Rec.
53 (noting that his food rations had stopped after
the election of Charles Taylor); TRC Diaspora
Statement Rec.56 (“When we arrived in Ghana
newly we were registered and supplied food but
later discontinued. It has now restarted but told I
was omitted.”); TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 162
(describing her perception that only refugees who