Human rights and forced displacement / / edited by Anne F. Bayefsky and Joan Fitzpatrick.

A comprehensive approach to the problem of forced displacement involves understanding and addressing human rights issues in a multiplicity of forms. This collection aims to contribute to the institutional capacities of the many different players to `operationalise' the human rights of refugees...

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Superior document:Refugees and Human Rights ; 4
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Place / Publishing House:The Hague : : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,, [1998]
©1998
Year of Publication:1998
Language:English
Series:Refugees and human rights ; 4.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments. Preface. I: Standards. 1. Human Rights and Forced Displacement: Converging Standards
  • J. Fitzpatrick. 2. Human Rights Standards: A Paradigm for Refugee Protection? R. Towle. 3. Forced Displacement: The Relevance of International Humanitarian Law
  • J.-P. Lavoyer. 4. Forced Displacement and the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  • M. Scheinin. 5. The Development of International Standards to Protect Internally Displaced Persons
  • R. Cohen. II: Monitoring and Reporting. 6. Protecting the Rights of Displaced Children: Some Suggestions for Enhanced Monitoring and Reporting
  • J. Kunder, B.V. Nylund. 7. Monitoring & Reporting: A Search for New Advocacy Strategies
  • L.M. MacMillan. 8. Through Rose-Coloured Glasses: UNHCR's Role in Monitoring the Safety of the Rohingya Refugees Returning to Burma
  • D. Petrasek. 9. Rights and Responsibilities of Refugees and Their Protectors
  • P. Lyman. III: Solutions. 10. Land and Resource Access Rights and Forced Displacements of People: Can Democracy in the Countryside Help? D.H.M. Cumming. 11. The Future: Articulating Responsibilities to Identify and Bring to Justice Perpetrators of Serious Human Rights Violations and International Crimes
  • S. Grant. 12. Solutions: Human Rights Verification and Accountability
  • J.E. Méndez, F. Cox. 13. Human Rights and Forced Displacement: CARE's Perspective on Solutions
  • A. Jones. 14. A New Role for Human Rights Organisations in Refugee Protection? R. Reilly. IV: The Future. 15. CIS Migration Conference and Program of Action: A Model for Addressing Human Rights and Forced Displacement
  • M. Rivera Houze. 16. The Future of Refugee Protection
  • A.C. Helton. 17. Further Promotion and Encouragement of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Including the Programme and Methods of Work of the Commission: Human Rights, Mass Exoduses and Displaced Persons
  • F. Deng. 18. United Nations Initiatives in Humanitarian Emergencies Causing Forced Displacement
  • G. Magazzeni. 19. Turn Back to Look Ahead? Central European Observations on the Future of Regimes Affecting Refugees
  • B. Nagy. 20. International Criminal Tribunals as a Deterrent to Displacement
  • N. Pillay. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.