A/HRC/RES/41/15
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 July 2019
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Forty-first session
24 June–12 July 2019
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 11 July 2019
41/15.
Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally
displaced persons
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling all previous resolutions on internally displaced persons adopted by the
General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council,
including Assembly resolution 72/182 of 19 December 2017 and Council resolution 32/11 of
1 July 2016,
Recalling also General Assembly resolution 46/182 of 19 December 1991 on the
strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian emergency assistance of the United
Nations, and the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement annexed thereto,
Recalling further Human Rights Council resolutions 5/1, on the institution-building
of the Council, and 5/2, on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate Holders of
the Council, both of 18 June 2007, and stressing that the mandate holder shall discharge his
or her duties in accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,
Deeply disturbed by the alarmingly large number of internally displaced persons
throughout the world for reasons including violations and abuses of human rights, violations
of international humanitarian law, armed conflict, persecution, violence and terrorism, as
well as disasters and the adverse effects of climate change, and increasingly in situations
where those elements interact, who receive inadequate protection and assistance, and
conscious of the serious challenges that this is creating for the people affected, including the
host communities, for States and for the international community,
Recognizing the increase in the number and scale of natural disasters and climate
change as one of the drivers of disaster risk, and that the adverse effects of climate change,
as contributors to environmental degradation and extreme weather events, may, in certain
instances, among other factors, contribute to internal displacement and additional pressure
on host communities, and noting that the vulnerability of displaced persons may increase
when their host communities are affected by disasters,
Conscious of the human rights, humanitarian, development and possible
peacebuilding and transitional justice dimensions of internal displacement, including in
situations of long-term displacement, the often heightened vulnerability of children, older
persons, persons with disabilities and persons belonging to minorities, and the responsibilities
of States and the international community to further strengthen their protection and
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