Evolution, challenges and trends in internal displacement 2012, para. 24
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- When seeking to identify specific rights for internally displaced persons, based on the particular needs of this category of persons, the Special Representative and the legal team found that some grey areas and gaps existed. They concluded that, while improving protection for internally displaced persons would indeed require a restatement of the law that rendered it more relevant to their specific needs and addressed the existing gaps, this could be achieved through a compilation and adaptation of existing international law to the needs of internally displaced persons, thus rendering it unnecessary to create new law. This manner of working within existing law that had already been agreed upon by States, and formulating guidance for its specific application to internally displaced persons, was an innovative and key feature of the Guiding Principles. The fact that they were based on and reflected existing international human rights and humanitarian law, and by analogy, international refugee law, strengthened their standing and acceptance by States.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Internally Displaced Persons, Report to the UNGA (2012), A/67/289, para. 24.
- Paragraph number
- 24
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