Rights of Refugees and IDPs in Africa

Around 30 million internally displaced persons, refugees and asylum-seekers ... UNHCR collaborates with partners to promote the rights of forcibly displaced ...

Rights of Refugees and IDPs in Africa - Berkeley Law

From 1997 to 1999, I worked as Legal Research Officer on a study on the extent to which refugees enjoyed their rights in Uganda and the East African region ...

Refugee & Asylum Law in Africa - Comparative Human Rights ...

Full-text searchable database of information related to refugees and human rights, including case law, national legislation, treaty documents, country reports.

African Guiding Principles on the Human Rights of All Migrants ...

The present African Guiding Principles on the Human Rights of All Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers are proposed for consideration and adoption.

Internally Displaced People - UNHCR

Internally displaced people (IDPs) have been forced to flee their homes by conflict, violence, persecution or disasters, however, unlike refugees, they remain ...

Migration Dynamics, Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in ...

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, sub-Sahara Africa hosts more than 26 percent (over 18 million) of the world's ...

African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of ...

African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention)

on refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons in africa

We call upon Member States who have not done so to sign and ratify treaties, conventions and covenants relating to human rights, refugees, the protection of ...

About internally displaced persons | OHCHR

Unlike refugees, these internally displaced persons do not have a special status in international law with rights specific to their situation. The term " ...

Africa: Oral Statement on the Situation of Refugees, Asylum Seekers ...

... Internally Displaced Persons and Migrants in Africa delivered at the 81st Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' ...

On forced displacement we can learn from Africa | Africa Renewal

Tanzania, for instance, has granted citizenship to 200,000 refugees, giving them access to land rights and allowing them to participate in the political life.

New Challenges for Refugee Policy: Internally Displaced Persons

At the institutional level, an array of international humanitarian, human rights and development organizations have come forward to offer protection, assistance ...

New Hopes and Challenges for the Protection of IDPs in Africa

Meeting on African Union mechanisms and the Protection of Refugee, IDP and Citizenship Rights ... Refugees, Asylum Seekers, IDPs and Migrants in Africa for the.

AfricanMigrantsMatter Campaign - Centre for Human Rights

With more than a third of the world's forcibly displaced people in Africa, including an estimated 6.3 million refugees and asylum-seekers and 14.5 million IDPs, ...

Fact Sheet No.20, Human Rights and Refugees - ohchr

(1) Since they remain inside their own countries, these persons are excluded from the present system of refugee protection. Most of the internally displaced.

Resolution on Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in Africa

To pay particular attention to the protection of economic, social and cultural rights of refugees; · To ensure strict respect of the 1951 Convention and the OAU ...

A Synergistic Approach to the OAU Refugee Convention and the ...

[11] “African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention),” art. 1(k), ...

Refugee Rights: Ethics, Advocacy, and Africa on JSTOR

This chapter discusses the impact—moral, emotional, psychological, and behavioral—of long-term stays in refugee camps. It also attempts to identify those ...

Forced displacement - European Commission

The approach aims to harness the productive capacities of refugees and IDPs by helping them access education, health care, housing, land, ...

Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants - Amnesty International

The rights of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers are protected by international law, regardless of how and why they arrive in a country. They have the same ...