Looking forward: addressing new challenges and consolidating gains 2011, para. 58
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- The next steps, to which the IDP mandate will wish to contribute, are therefore to actively promote the ratification by States of the Convention and to continue to assist in putting in place policy and legislative frameworks which will ensure its implementation at the national level. The Special Rapporteur is encouraged by the fact that a number of African States have already developed or are in the course of developing national laws and policies to address the issue of internal displacement, many of which are based on the Guiding Principles. This has been reinforced by the 2006 Protocol on the Protection and Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons (Great Lakes Protocol), which requires Member States to incorporate the Guiding Principles into domestic legislation. This mandate has already had a practice of engaging with States, including African States, in the development of national IDP policies and legislation. Most recently, it provided technical assistance earlier this year to Kenya in the elaboration of a draft national IDP policy.
- 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
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2011
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Internally Displaced Persons, Report to the HRC (2011), A/HRC/16/43, para. 58.
- Paragraph number
- 58
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