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they are not permitted to seek outside employment. The se

camps are run by the Hong Kong Government with assistance

from UNHCR and voluntary agencies.

been

The Jubilee

Camp, where I understand Miss Dew

worked, is an open camp located in Sham Shui Po, which is

in the main urban area of the Kowloon Peninsula. It has

a particularly difficult camp to run, mainly because

the rate of resettlement from the camp has been very low.

All the

the refugees in the camp are ethnic Vietnamese from

South Vietnam, usually of rural and poor educational

background, and many of their cases have been looked at

by at least one resettlement country and rejected. The

birth rate at the camp has been higher than at other

camps, partly because of the refugees' background and

partly because of the reluctance of CARITAS, the Catholic

voluntary agency who were running the camp, to implement

Miss Dew may

a

proper birth control programme there.

like to know that CARITAS have now been

replaced by

another voluntary agency, the International Rescue

Committee.

Since December 1984, UNHCR has also been conducting

a special campaign to increase resettlement from Jubilee,

wi th the aim of substantially reducing the camp

This has had some success, but the

population.

population still stands at 2,200.