Making States Accountable for Deliberate Forced Displacement /

While the international refugee regime is anchored in the 1951 The international refugee regime is designed Refugee Convention and the work of the United to provide legal status and international Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), protection to those people who have fled from the Convention is silent on the question of state their own states “owing to well-founded fear of culpability, [...] While regional refugee law The Genocide Convention explicitly establishes that — including the 1969 Organization of African Unity the forcible transfer of children from one group (OAU) Convention Governing the Specific Aspects to another and that acts that are “deliberately of Refugee Problems in Africa (OAU Convention) inflicting on the groups conditions of life calculated and the 1984 Cartagena [...] IDPs are protected only UPR includes the Charter of the United Nations, by the soft law Guiding Principles on Internal the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Displacement, and while there is a UN Special and human rights instruments to which the Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally reviewed state is a party. [...] Switzerland recommended that Bhutan “take Other states have the opportunity to participate the necessary measures to allow the Bhutanese in the review and to make recommendations to refugees who wish to return to Bhutan to do so the state under review. [...] Within 17 In a 2015 report examining the ongoing persecution of the Rohingya in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Myanmar, the organization argued that the crisis demonstrated the need (ASEAN), there is a lack of formal mechanisms to expand “the mandate of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) to include country visits, inquiries, complaints, and emergency protect