This paper constitutes a plea to the academic and practitioner community to conduct research in an emerging area.1 Current discussions about transitional justice in a post-conflict state tend to ignore the issue of who is included in and excluded from transitional justice decisions, including forcibly displaced persons. There is no existing study of refugees or IDPs and their relation to transitional justice. I argue for research which could lead to both innovative programs in refugee and IDP camps but also improved sustainability of peace-building efforts in the country of origin. Moreover, such research could foreground wider issues of coherence and effectiveness for the current UN system about the prevention of forced displacement.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The U.S. Human Rights Network today called for authorities to meet their legal and moral obligations to "internally displaced persons" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Continued relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have been marked by as much official confusion and disarray as was evident in the immediate response. Competing interests combined with poor planning and a disjointed response from public and private agencies have underscored conflicting views about priorities, funding and other crucial details. A clear vision of what should happen next can be readily gained by applying a human rights framework to the debate, according to the organization which said such a framework already exists in the United Nations Guiding Principle...
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced that it plans to demolish more than five thousand public housing apartments in New Orleans. In August 2005, HUD reported there were 7,381 public apartments in New Orleans. Now HUD says it has 1,000 apartments open and has promised to repair and open another 1,000 in a couple of months. After months of rumors, HUD confirmed its intention to demolish all the remaining apartments. Patience is in short supply in New Orleans, as more than 200,000 people remain displaced. "I just need somewhere to stay," Patricia Thomas told the Times-Picayune. Ms. Thomas has lived in public housing for years. "We're losing our older people. They're dropping like flies when they hear they can't come home. Despite HUD's promise to demolish hom...
... law, the victims of Katrina are "internally displaced persons" because they were displaced wit...
ATLANTA, Sept. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Continued relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have been marked by as much official confusion and disarray as was evident in the immediate response. Competing interests combined with poor planning and a disjointed response from public and private agencies have underscored conflicting views about priorities, funding and other crucial details. A clear vision of what should happen next, however, can be readily gained by applying a human rights framework to the debate. Such a framework already exists: the United Nations Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement. The principles identify the internationally recognized rights and guarantees of "internally displaced persons -- people who have been forcibly displaced from their homes and com...
WASHINGTON, June 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Islamic Relief USA, a relief and development organization based in the D.C. metropolitan area, announced the launch of its Yemen Emergency Campaign. Escalating tensions between tribes and government forces sparked a wave of violence resulting in widespread displacement of Yemenis. The United Nations children's agency, UNICEF, is warning that the ongoing crisis in Yemen is fostering a humanitarian catastrophe. Already one of the poorest countries in the world, Yemen faces widespread water and fuel shortages. According to the UN, the number of internally displaced in Yemen is around 15,000, but there are fears the number could reach as high as 40,000 and beyond. These internally displaced persons (IDPs) are in need of humanitarian assis...
General review of the legal activities of the United Nations Membership of the United Nations 97 Peace and security (a) Peacekeeping missions and operations (b) Political and peacebuilding missions (c) Other bodies (d) Missions of the Security Council (e) Other peacekeeping matters (f) Action of Member States authorized by the Security Council (g) Sanctions imposed under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations (h) Terrorism (i) Humanitarian law and human rights in the context of peace and security (j) Piracy Disarmament and related matters (a) Disarmament machinery (b) Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferations issues (c) Biological and chemical weapons issues (d) Conventional weapons issues (e) Regional disarmament activities of the United Nations...
... for equal access to quality education for persons belonging to minorities, in particular minority ch... by humanitarian emergencies, including internally displaced persons, and welcomed in this regard the...
[...] in September the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development reported that the economy of the occupied Palestinian territory continued to perform well below potential. The International Federation of Human Rights worries that "Thousands of extrajudicial and summary executions, massacres, enforced disappearances, internally displaced persons and other grave international crimes have been documented by the United Nations themselves in Colombia under Uribe's presidency," and pointed to his attempts to develop security cooperation with Israel.
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