Human rights protection for refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced persons : : a guide to international mechanisms and procedures / / Joan Fitzpatrick, editor.

• TeilnehmendeR: Fitzpatrick, Joan, 1950-2003,
• Place / Publishing House: Ardsley, New York : : Transnational Publishers, Inc.,, [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (700 pages)

This volume provides a detailed and concrete analysis of how human rights complaints mechanisms can be accessed by refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced persons. The guide offers a thorough explanation of the United Nations human rights treaty bodies, with a focus upon the four committees authorized to receive communications from individuals. Detailed information is provided concerning procedural requirements, while the treaties are analyzed for their relevance to the forcibly displaced. United Nations mechanisms are also examined, with an emphasis on the thematic and country special procedures of the Commission on Human Rights. Published under the auspices of the Procedual Aspects of International Law Institute (PAIL). For more information about PAIL please go to pail-institute.org . Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments -- Editor's Foreword -- Contributors -- Table of Abbreviations -- -- Chapter 1. The Human Rights of Refugees, Asylum-Seekers, and Internally Displaced Persons: A Basic Introduction, JOAN FITZPATRICK -- -- Chapter 2. Protection Under the Complaint Procedures of the United Nations -- Treaty Bodies, ANNE BAYEFSKY, STEPHANIE FARRIOR, KAREN HANRAHAN, AND ANDREW LANGHAM -- -- Chapter 3. The United Nations Charter-Based Mechanisms, CAMILLE GIFFARD AND MEAGAN HRLE -- -- Chapter 4. African Regional Mechanisms That Can Be Utilized on Behalf of the Forcibly Displaced, CHIDI ANSELM ODINKALU AND MONETTE ZARD -- -- Chapter 5. European Human Rights Mechanisms, DIANE ATKINSON-SANFORD -- -- Chapter 7. International Criminal Tribunals: Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons Who May Be Witnesses Before the Tribunals, ÅSA RYDBERG AND KELLY ASKIN -- -- Chapter 8. Internationalized Legal Structures and the Protection of Internally Displaced -- Persons, MARCUS COX AND CHRISTOPHER HARLAND -- -- Appendices -- Bibliography of Cited International Instruments -- Index -- About The Procedural Aspects of International Law Institute -- Procedural Aspects of International Law Monograph Series -- Other PAIL Institute Publications;.