Part IV Activities of Organizations, Ch.15 Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loescher Gil
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Forced Displacement ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Institutional Regimes

This chapter examines the roles, functions, achievements, and failures of the principal international organization — the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) — to protect refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), and to find solutions to their plight. It begins by outlining some of the similarities and differences between refugees and IDPs. It then discusses the complex history, development, and limitations of the legal, normative, and institutional regimes for both refugees and IDPs. Finally the chapter outlines some of the current challenges and emerging issues for responding to both kinds of forced displacement before assessing the overall successes and failures of the international regime for forced displacement.

scholarly journals Refugee mental health challenges in Africa

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Frank G. Njenga
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
Refugee Mental Health ◽  
High Commissioner

Nearly all low-income countries are either just themselves emerging from conflict or neighbour a country that has just emerged from one. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (http://www.unhcr.org), of the 38 million uprooted people in 2003 worldwide, Africa played host to 13 million internally displaced persons and 3.5 million refugees.

scholarly journals Human Rights, Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: The UN Commission on Ruman Rights

Refuge ◽  
1997 ◽  
pp. 41-44
Author(s):  
Tim Wichert
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Universal Human Rights ◽  
The United Nations

This article argues that protecting refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) is an issue of universal human rights. It then suggests the urgent need for the UN Commission on Human Rights, working in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and member states of the United Nations, to play more important roles in protecting and enhancing human rights. It also stresses the importance of appropriate follow-up to the calls for more commitment and better actions in this area.

IDPs and refugees in the OSCE area

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-125
Author(s):  
Volker Türk
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
United Nations ◽  
North Africa ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
60Th Anniversary ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The Status

AbstractThis year marks the 60th anniversary of the UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 50th anniversary of the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. And yet there are almost 5 million refugees and internally displaced persons in the OSCE area. The crisis in North Africa and the Middle East is creating a vast new displacement challenge, including for OSCE participating States. What are the legal and policy gaps in terms of protection? And what steps are the OSCE and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) taking to tackle the problem of IDPs, refugees and statelessness in the OSCE?

The Repatriation and Resettlement of the Southern Sudanese

1972 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-26
Author(s):  
Louise W. Holborn
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Refugee Population ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
The Past ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations

While the world press has focused over the past year on problems surrounding the creation of still another refugee population in Africa — that of Uganda's Asians — far too little attention has been directed to the remarkable though still fragile process of repatriation and resettlement of hundreds of thousands of Southern Sudanese. This population of displaced persons includes both refugees who fled to other countries and large numbers of homeless who hid in the bush during the civil war that wracked the Sudan for seventeen years, from 1955 through the first months of 1972. Responding to the initiatives of President Gaafar al-Nimeiry of the Sudan, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (HCR), under an explicit mandate from the Secretary- General of the United Nations, has been raising funds, organizing activities on behalf of the most pressing needs and working closely with all local interests to meet overwhelming problems.

Sovereignty as Responsibility

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Cohen ◽  
Francis M. Deng
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Brookings Institution ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Human Rights Standards

The concept of ‘sovereignty as responsibility’ is without question one of the foundations for the concept of the responsibility to protect (R2P). As United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon observed in 2008, R2P is built on the ‘positive and affirmative concept of sovereignty as responsibility—a concept developed by . . . Francis Deng, and his colleagues at the Brookings Institution more than a decade ago’. This chapter discusses how the concept of sovereignty as responsibility developed from discussions about governance in Africa and from the application of human rights standards to the protection of internally displaced persons. It also identifies the differences in emphasis, scope, and usage between the concept and R2P.

WPS, Migration, and Displacement

2018 ◽  
pp. 642-656
Author(s):  
Lucy Hall
Keyword(s):  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Forced Displacement ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Significant Potential ◽  
Refugee Protection ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
The Relationship

The gendered impact of forced displacement is written into the foundation of the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda. This chapter explores the relationship between the protection of internally displaced persons (IDPs), refugees, and the WPS agenda to consider the potential for closer alignment between these frameworks. The chapter distinguishes between refugees and IDPs and their corresponding normative frameworks to explore how, despite being closely related, they have in different ways and to different degrees engaged with the WPS Agenda. Tracing the relationship between refugee protection and the WPS agenda, the chapter follows with a similar discussion of the relationship between IDP protection and the WPS agenda. With reference to more recent attempts to closely align the WPS agenda with IDP and refugee protection, the possibilities and limitations of closer alignment are explored. This chapter argues that there is significant potential for the WPS agenda to be more closely aligned with the protection frameworks that address forced displacement and suggests several points of departure for displaced women, advocates, and scholars to reinvigorate feminist visions of peace and security that could more strongly unite these three normative agendas.

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