Internal displacement/forced migration: standards and mechanisms -- texts and commentary

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Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Description: UN Standards, mechanisms, mandate and report of the RSG, other documents.
Source/publisher: United Nations
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Russian
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Description: "Global forced displacement has seen accelerated growth in 2014, once again reaching unprecedented levels. The year saw the highest displacement on record. By end-2014, 59.5 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, generalized violence, or human rights violations. This is 8.3 million persons more than the year before (51.2 million) and the highest annual increase in a single year."
Source/publisher: UNHCR
2014-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2015-07-11
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: Most Burmese people fleeing their homes do so for a combination of reasons. The root causes for leaving, however, determine which ‘category? they belong to: ‘internally displaced persons? (IDPs) or ‘economic migrants?. There is some discussion as to whether people leaving their homes due to exhaustion of livelihoods options are IDPs according to the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement1 – or not. Ashley South and Andrew Bosson present their views below...
Creator/author: Ashley South, Andrew Bosson
Source/publisher: "Forced Migration Review" No. 30
2008-04-22
Date of entry/update: 2008-11-30
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English, Burmese
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Description: "In the face of continuing grave violations of human rights by the Burmese government against its own civilians, it is imperative that the international community start to respond to Burma in terms of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle..."
Creator/author: Kavita Shukla
Source/publisher: "Forced Migration Review" No. 30
2008-04-22
Date of entry/update: 2008-11-30
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English, Burmese
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Description: "The Handbook for Applying the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement was reviewed by UN agencies and NGOs at a meeting at the UN in April 1999. It was decided that the UN would publish and disseminate it together with the Manual on Field Practice in Internal Displacement. The two volumes complement one another and together provide a sound basis for undertaking protection and assistance activities on behalf of internally displaced persons. It is my hope that this Handbook will be widely used by field staff working with internally displaced populations. It can raise awareness to the needs of the internally displaced, measure conditions on the ground, train staff in working with the displaced, and promote compliance by governments and nonstate actors with the provisions of the Guiding Principles. It also can help displaced communities better understand their rights and the responsibilities of governments and non-state actors toward them..." Francis M. Deng Representative of the Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons.
Source/publisher: UN OCHA, The Brookings Institution Project on Internal Displacement
1999-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2007-03-26
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf
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Source/publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ
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