cover image: World Refugee Council Research Paper No. 17 — June 2019 - Making States Accountable for Deliberate Forced Displacement

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World Refugee Council Research Paper No. 17 — June 2019 - Making States Accountable for Deliberate Forced Displacement

14 Jun 2019

displace their own populations? 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 w. [...] chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations (“Action with Respect to Threats to the Peace, The Human Rights Council can also use special Breaches of the Peace, and Acts of Aggression”). [...] 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. [...] 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. [...] While the ICTY had a number of be within the Court’s jurisdiction, providing one successful convictions for these crimes, the majority of the receiving states was a party to the Rome of cases were linked directly to genocide, especially Statute, and so it may have indirectly created as a result of the events at Srebrenica, or to a range another referral mechanism for those states (Colvin of crimes.
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