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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 39 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | The Special Rapporteur will continue and enhance work carried out under the mandate to ensure that internally displaced persons are not left behind, including in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. While there is no specific target relating to internal displacement, the Special Rapporteur emphasizes that it is incumbent upon States experiencing internal displacement to establish national implementation programmes and plans that recognize that internally displaced persons are among the most vulnerable populations, who have multiple challenges and needs relating to development priorities — including in the areas of education, health, housing, land, livelihoods and poverty. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 40 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | The Special Rapporteur will continue essential work to promote the development and implementation of legal and policy frameworks that are key to addressing internal displacement at all levels. While her predecessors played a leadership role in developing key international, regional and national frameworks, including the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and the IASC Framework on Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons, the Special Rapporteur will prioritize implementation and operationalization of these standards, in close collaboration with national governments, regional mechanisms and other relevant stakeholders. She will advocate for standards to be translated into domestic law and policy and will assist States and other organizations through direct engagement, recommendations, awareness-raising and mobilization of support. In line with this, the mandate holder will continue to co-chair, with UNHCR, the Global Protection Cluster’s task team on law and policy. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 31 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Enhanced international attention has been given to large movements of refugees and migrants, including in the context of the United Nations Summit for Refugees and Migrants, held in New York on 19 September 2016, and of subsequent processes under way to adopt global compacts on safe, orderly and regular migration and on refugees by September 2018. The Special Rapporteur urges the international community to ensure that it maintains much-needed attention on the situation of internally displaced persons, recognizing that many who have crossed international borders as refugees or undocumented or trafficked migrants have initially been internally displaced in their own countries and have not been provided with the necessary protection and support allowing them to remain in their own countries if they so wish. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 44 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | At the national level, the Special Rapporteur has been deeply concerned by challenges experienced on the ground by humanitarian and development partners in the delivery of their essential services and assistance. These include challenges regarding access to persons and communities affected by internal displacement, due to security concerns or restrictions imposed by national governments, as well as by non-State armed groups and similar non-State actors, particularly in conflict situations. These obstacles seriously hamper their ability to provide essential and life-saving support. The Special Rapporteur will support and collaborate with United Nations agencies and bodies to advocate strongly for States to fulfil their obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law and standards to provide free and unfettered access to all communities in need of assistance. In this context, the Special Rapporteur would also like to give due attention to the role of non-State actors. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 45 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | The Special Rapporteur is alarmed by the inadequate levels of funding available for the essential work of humanitarian and development partners and civil society, especially those on the ground. She applauds the international donor community for its essential funding of humanitarian and development responses globally. She urges donors to maintain and expand essential funding, while incorporating the provisions of the Grand Bargain on humanitarian financing, including flexibility of funding to facilitate new approaches to humanitarian crises, and new ways of working to provide greater attention to durable solutions to internal displacement. A shortfall of funding by some national governments to adequately address their internal displacement situations, as well as mismanagement of funds, poor governance and lack of accountability, have, in some cases, created overreliance on the international community, which is unsustainable in the long term. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 71 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | The picture of internal displacement and the plight of internally displaced persons globally have offered little positive news in recent years. Massive and ongoing conflicts and displacement crises remain unresolved, and some have worsened or become entrenched. New conflicts have emerged and disasters struck, causing internal displacement numbers to rise relentlessly to record levels, which puts new pressure on an already overstretched international system of humanitarian response. Where conflicts have abated, internally displaced persons often do not achieve durable solutions for years after their displacement, if at all. The protracted nature of some conflicts and internal displacement all too often results in protracted humanitarian responses that fail to progress to recovery phases and towards durable solutions for internally displaced persons. In some cases, donor fatigue results in fewer resources being available to address expanding and complex caseloads of internally displaced persons. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 72 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Indeed, the numbers of internally displaced persons globally are in fact likely to be significantly higher than those publicly stated by the United Nations and other international organizations, which only take into account the available data on conflict-induced and disaster-induced displacement. It is estimated that millions more are displaced annually by other causes and drivers of displacement, including development projects and generalized violence. It must also be recognized that there is a need for greater research and more data on internal displacement as a result of slow-onset disasters and climate change, in order to reveal the current and future internal displacement trends and to better meet these challenges. The Special Rapporteur will continue to raise awareness of these neglected areas of internal displacement concern, as well as to advocate for national and international action to protect the human rights of persons who have been internally displaced as a result of all causes of displacement. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 36 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | During his tenure, the former Special Rapporteur focused on durable solutions as an essential pillar of the responses to internal displacement from the very onset of displacement. As durable solutions remain elusive and many internally displaced persons globally still live in protracted displacement, the Special Rapporteur is convinced that durable solutions must remain high on the agenda if all stakeholders are to address internal displacement in a comprehensive way. Promoting durable solutions for internally displaced persons will continue to be a primary focus of the work of the mandate, and new initiatives towards this goal will include focused thematic attention to strengthening the participation of internally displaced persons in decisions affecting them, and to ensuring that internally displaced persons are included fully in transitional justice, the restoration of housing, land and property, and peacebuilding processes, which are essential components of durable solutions. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 67 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement establish that the prohibition of arbitrary displacement includes displacement “in cases of large-scale development projects, which are not justified by compelling and overriding public interests” (principle No. 6). While recognizing the significant benefits that development projects often bring to societies more widely, especially those in less developed countries, questions remain as to the appropriate criteria and parameters to be applied in cases where development could lead to internal displacement. The Special Rapporteur will consult with global and national development actors, including United Nations bodies and agencies, and other stakeholders, with the objective of clarifying the practices employed and the criteria applied at all phases of development processes. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 35 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | The Special Rapporteur will continue to engage in global and regional initiatives and processes to identify, raise awareness of and concretely address the impact of slow-onset disasters and climate change and its implications on internal displacement. The Special Rapporteur considers that more attention needs to be given to this evolving issue, particularly to the links between climate change and internal displacement, and their implications in relation to human security and conflict. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 26 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | The Special Rapporteur will continue and strengthen the existing cooperation established between the mandate and United Nations organizations. She will continue to participate in and actively contribute to the work of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) as a Principal, and will work to provide it with guidance and support on the subject of internally displaced persons. To that end, she participated in her first IASC Principals’ meeting in Geneva on 6 December 2016, which will be followed by the IASC Principals’ retreat scheduled for 28 April 2017. Moreover, she took part in an IASC Working Group meeting held in Rome on 5 and 6 April 2017, in which she provided an update on activities under a joint project between the Special Rapporteur and the Joint IDP Profiling Service and in collaboration with a broad group of development, humanitarian and peacebuilding actors to operationalize the IASC Framework on Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons. The project is aimed at developing tools, methodologies and guidance, for shared and comprehensive yet practical approaches to durable solutions analysis in displacement situations. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 28 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | In view of her strategic and thematic priorities, the Special Rapporteur has also begun to significantly strengthen cooperation and institutional relationships with the United Nations Development Programme, the International Organization for Migration and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), among others. In addition to conducting bilateral meetings with these entities, she is investigating practical measures for them to institutionalize their cooperation with the mandate, including through the establishment of focal points in such organizations relating to specific areas of collaboration. Furthermore, the Special Rapporteur will expand her collaboration with national human rights institutions, with a view to identifying positive practices in their work relating to internally displaced persons (see section IV. D. below). |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 24 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | The Special Rapporteur considers that internally displaced persons are frequently the least, the last and the lost in terms of national and international attention to their plight. It is a core priority of the mandate holder to promote visibility and effective protection for all internally displaced persons, including those who have become invisible or neglected, the most vulnerable, and those facing the greatest challenges resulting from their displacement. She will therefore take an impact-oriented and human rights-based approach to her work, focusing on building and strengthening constructive partnerships and collaborations with the objective of delivering effective assistance and protection on the ground. Her working methods will build on those established by her predecessors, while also emphasizing the identification of opportunities and entry points to engage directly and constructively with States and other stakeholders in emerging, ongoing and protracted internal displacement situations. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 25 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | The Special Rapporteur will continue to seek and conduct country visits in all regions to gather first-hand information on the situation of internally displaced persons and to engage directly and constructively with national authorities and other stakeholders. She will give high priority to those States with the most critical, challenging and persistent displacement situations, while also seeking visits based on her thematic priorities. She has sent initial requests for visits and encourages States to respond positively. The Special Rapporteur welcomes the positive responses received to date from the Government of El Salvador and the Government of Guatemala for her to conduct visits in 2017 and 2019 respectively. In conformity with the practice of the mandate, she will also conduct working visits and follow-up visits, at the invitation of a variety of stakeholders, including United Nations agencies, to consider internal displacement issues and to engage with a range of actors, including national authorities. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 70 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | The Special Rapporteur will seek to continue her engagement with countries where generalized violence is the cause of internal displacement. In particular, the Special Rapporteur seeks to continue the mandate’s support to Honduras, visited by the former Special Rapporteur in 2015 and 2016, to examine the situation of violence-related internal displacement, and to maintain her support for the Government in its work to protect internally displaced persons, including through the adoption of a law on internally displaced persons. Furthermore, she thanks the Government of El Salvador and the Government of Guatemala for their positive responses to her requests for official visits to those countries, and will conduct an official visit to El Salvador in the second half of 2017 and to Guatemala in 2019. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 46 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | States have the primary responsibility for promoting and protecting the human rights of internally displaced persons. In December 2016, the Special Rapporteur wrote to Member States and requested their responses to a questionnaire. Among its objectives, the questionnaire sought to identify positive practices in the field of legal, policy and institutional frameworks and activities of States to protect and support internally displaced persons; it also sought to obtain information on measures taken to ensure the active participation of internally displaced persons as partners and not simply beneficiaries, in decisions affecting them and assistance measures. The Special Rapporteur sincerely thanks those States that responded and will study the information provided to inform her future work. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 76 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | The Special Rapporteur will continue to address the most critical situations regarding the internal displacement of persons, in all regions, and to promote durable solutions and advocate for the adoption of regional and national normative frameworks. In addition, she will bring new attention to other important internal displacement issues, including: strengthening the participation of internally displaced persons in responses to internal displacement; ensuring the inclusion of internally displaced persons in transitional justice processes; improving the protection of internally displaced children; enhancing the role of national human rights institutions in the protection of internally displaced persons; and providing increased attention to neglected drivers of internal displacement, including development-induced displacement and displacement as a result of generalized violence. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 37 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | The Special Rapporteur will continue to lead an inter-agency project on measuring progress towards durable solutions for internally displaced persons, which is implemented by the Joint IDP Profiling Service in collaboration with a broad group of development, humanitarian and peacebuilding actors. The project is aimed at operationalizing the Framework on Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons by developing a library of indicators, tools, methodologies and guidance, for shared and comprehensive yet practical approaches to durable solutions analysis in displacement situations. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 27 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | The Special Rapporteur welcomes the support provided to her mandate by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Equally, in the conduct of her activities and country visits, she will continue to collaborate closely and systematically with United Nations country teams, and to work closely with the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The collaboration between the mandate and these key United Nations entities has proved highly effective, notably in the context of country visits undertaken, during which they have provided invaluable support, assistance, and information. The Special Rapporteur thanks them for their continuing support for her work and looks forward to continuing and strengthening this collaboration. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 47 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | In line with her strategic priorities, the Special Rapporteur will dedicate her next thematic reports to the following thematic issues: (a) strengthening the participation of internally displaced persons in responses to internal displacement; (b) ensuring the inclusion of internally displaced persons in transitional justice mechanisms and peace processes as part of durable solutions; (c) improving the protection of internally displaced children; (d) enhancing the role of national human rights institutions and other relevant human rights actors in the protection of internally displaced persons; and (e) addressing neglected drivers of displacement, including development projects and generalized violence. In conducting her thematic work she will consult widely, in order to identify particular issues where her mandate can make the most effective contributions while avoiding duplication of the work of other institutions. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 48 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | The Special Rapporteur is concerned by evidence coming from internal displacement situations in all regions, including that gathered in the context of numerous country visits undertaken by the mandate holders, that minimum standards for consultation with and participation by internally displaced persons are not being achieved in practice. This undermines the enjoyment of human rights by internally displaced persons as well as progress towards the achievement of durable solutions for them. Internally displaced persons have the right to be involved in all decisions affecting them, at all phases of displacement, and, to the extent possible, to decide on the solutions most appropriate to them and to their location, housing and livelihood preferences. Solutions are only durable when they offer internally displaced persons the best possible available outcomes for them. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 74 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | As those with primary responsibility, States affected by internal displacement must recognize and better adhere to their commitments under international human rights and humanitarian law and standards, firstly to prevent internal displacement, and to respond better when displacement occurs. Where possible, shifting the focus back towards the primary responsibility of States at all phases of displacement is necessary and will allow international humanitarian partners to more rapidly move on from protracted humanitarian assistance programmes. This will allow them to focus on new, critical displacement situations in which States are unable to respond effectively, as well to undertake more strategic resilience-building and recovery activities alongside development partners. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 56 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | The Special Rapporteur recognizes the important work already undertaken, including research and case studies conducted by the International Center for Transitional Justice and the Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, among other contributions. Equally, international standards, such as the principles on housing and property restitution for refugees and displaced persons and the related Handbook on Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons, deliver valuable guidance relating to specific areas of concern. This provides strong foundations for further development, with the objective of operationalizing existing resources and providing technical assistance for their implementation. The Special Rapporteur will collaborate with United Nations bodies and other international organizations, NGOs and national human rights institutions to make progress in this regard. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 38 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | The goal of reducing displacement, in line with the outcomes of the World Humanitarian Summit, in which an ambitious goal was set of halving it by 2030, must be achieved in a manner fully consistent with the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and the IASC Framework on Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons and through the achievement of durable solutions. Consistent with the World Humanitarian Summit outcomes, the Special Rapporteur will place a strong emphasis on strengthening the engagement of development actors at the earliest phases of humanitarian and displacement crises, on ensuring the participation of internally displaced persons as partners and on seeking to strengthen the capacity and resources available to local civil society partners. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 29 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Collaboration with civil society organizations, at the international and national levels, has been instrumental in the work of this mandate and the Special Rapporteur will continue and enhance her engagement with civil society organizations working on protection of internally displaced persons. Furthermore, the Special Rapporteur will put particular emphasis on consultations with internally displaced persons and displacement-affected communities and, where they exist, with internally displaced persons’ organizations or associations, which remain key counterparts for the mandate in order to ensure that their voices and perspectives are better reflected in all relevant forums. She will seek to increase the presence and role of internally displaced persons, including women, in national, regional and international forums to ensure that their unique experiences and perspectives come to the fore. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 52 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | On 25 January 2017, the Special Rapporteur began consultations on this issue by convening an expert discussion on the participation of internally displaced persons, with relevant United Nations and international NGO partners active on this issue. This served to further her understanding of the issues and challenges and allowed her to obtain the views of key partners and consider positive practices. She will continue to seek positive examples from all regions that she can promote for possible use in other displacement situations. Furthermore, the Special Rapporteur recognizes that international advocacy efforts to promote the rights of internally displaced persons benefit from the actual participation of internally displaced persons. However, internally displaced persons are rarely present in such forums, and she will encourage and advocate for their participation in such regional and international events. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 63 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Human rights violations frequently precede or trigger displacement and occur during or after displacement. As independent human rights bodies and monitors of human rights situations, national human rights institutions have a critical role in protection of internally displaced persons. There are several examples of countries, including Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, the Philippines, Uganda and Ukraine, whose national human rights institutions have played prominent roles in protection of internally displaced persons. Those roles have included advocacy and awareness-raising, training for officials and others in international human rights and humanitarian law and standards, monitoring of the rights of internally displaced persons, registration of individual complaints and investigation of specific cases so that perpetrators are held accountable. Their role in advocacy for domestic legislation to protect the rights of internally displaced persons should also be mentioned. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 34 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | The Special Rapporteur favours continuity in the core strategic work of the mandate on achieving the most important global objectives for the protection of internally displaced persons, and giving necessary attention to the most critical displacement situations and the most vulnerable groups or sectors. In this regard, she will continue activities under her mandate to engage with countries experiencing urgent conflict-induced displacement. In her first visit to the Middle East, the Special Rapporteur participated in the international conference on human rights-based approaches to conflict situations in the Arab region, which was held on 20 and 21 February 2017 in Doha and was hosted by the National Human Rights Committee of Qatar and OHCHR, where she interacted with States and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from the region. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 73 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Confronted by the reality of record numbers of internally displaced persons, it is vital for the international community to maintain and intensify its generous efforts to meet the needs and protect the rights of internally displaced persons and to begin to reverse the global trends. The vision laid out at the World Humanitarian Summit for new approaches to humanitarian action is welcome and provides a positive direction of travel that stakeholders should adopt. The focus on internally displaced persons is necessary and timely, and a global target to reduce internal displacement by 50 per cent by 2030 in a safe and dignified manner provides an ambitious yet necessary stimulus. Moving from principles to action will be a difficult task ahead in order to meet this goal. This must be achieved in compliance with human rights law and through the implementation of international standards for the protection of internally displaced persons and the achievement of durable solutions. |
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Roadmap for the next three years: thematic priorities of the new mandate-holder 2017, para. 49 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Non-negotiated soft law | Special Procedures' report | Interaction with internally displaced persons commonly reveals: a lack of information provided to them at all phases of displacement; infrequent engagement by the authorities responsible; an absence of or inadequate mechanisms and processes for consultation and participation; and decision-making processes that fail to take their views, needs and objectives fully into account. Ensuring that internally displaced persons are included from the outset, in the design, planning and implementation of all actions and measures directed towards them, must be at the heart of responses by national governments and by all humanitarian, development and other relevant actors. Participation empowers internally displaced communities, informs them of their rights and is instrumental in the process of community resilience-building and recovery, where it is effective and results-oriented. Moreover, meaningful participation returns essential dignity to communities devastated by displacement, allowing them to be agents in their own recovery rather than only beneficiaries of assistance. |
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