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KATHMANDU: The United Nations on Friday asked the Nepalese Government to help people internally displaced due to the nine-year-long Maoist insurgency, whose numbers may be as high as 400,000. Although only 8,000 displaced persons are on official record of the Government, actually the number could be as high as 4 lakhs and a significant number of those displaced by the Maoist violence have migrated to various Indian cities, said Walter Kalin, the United Nations Secretary-General's Representative (RSG) on Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons. The Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nepal have been largely overlooked and neglected, and the IDPs are facing discrimination, sexual abuses, domestic violence, poor security, inadequate food and shelter and lack of personal property, said Mr. Kalin. The RSG has urged the Government to implement at the earliest comprehensive national IDP policy and asked the Maoists to respect the basic principles of international humanitarian law.
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