Recruiting Internally Displaced Persons into Civil Militias: The Case of Northern Uganda
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Factors associated with the health status of internally displaced persons in northern Uganda
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عنوان ژورنال: Nordic Journal of Human Rights
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1891-8131,1891-814X
DOI: 10.1080/18918131.2014.937203