Internally Displaced Persons at the Fifty-Fourth Session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, 16 March-24 April 1998

International Journal of Refugee Law

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 553-554

  Bagshaw, Simon ^a  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

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EID: 0442312987     PISSN: 09538186     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ijrl/10.3.548     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr Francis Deng, submitted pursuant to Commission on Human Rights resolution 1997/39. Addendum. Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: UN doc. E/CN.4/1998/53/Add. 2 (1998).
2. Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr Francis Deng, submitted pursuant to Commission on Human Rights resolution 1995/57. Compilation and Analysis of Legal Norms: UN doc. E/CN.4/1996/52/Add. 2 (1995).
3. Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr Francis Deng, submitted pursuant to Commission on Human Rights resolution 1997/39. Addendum. Compilations and Analysis of Legal Norms, Part II: Legal Aspects Relating to the Protection Against Arbitrary Displacement: UN doc. E/CN.4/1998/53/Add. 1 (1998).
4. See Commission on Human Rights resolutions 1996/52 (1996) and 1997/39 (1997) respectively.
5. This definition was first used in the Secretary-General's 1992 analytical report on internally displaced persons; see UN doc. E/CN.4/1992/23 (1992), para. 17.
6. UN doc. E/CN.4/1998/53/Add. 2, para. 2.
7. See Cohen, R. and Deng, F.M., Masses in Flight. The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement. Washington, DC.: Brookings Institution Press (1998), 16-19.
8. Ibid.
9. UN doc. E/CN.4/1998/L.68.
10. UNGA res. 41/120 (1986).
11. See note 4 above.
12. The following 55 countries sponsored the resolution which was adopted without a vote: Afghanistan, Angola, Argentina, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mauritius, Mozambique, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, United States of America, Uruguay and Zambia.
13. Renewing the United Nations: A Programme for Reform. Report of the Secretary-General: UN doc. A/51/950 (1997), paras. 77 and 186.
14. The Global IDP Survey can be found on the Internet at: http://web.sol.no/nrc-no/idp.htm
15. See note 7 above; also Cohen, R. and Deng, F.M. (eds.), The Forsaken People. Case Studies of the Internally Displaced. Washington DC.: Brookings Institution Press (1998).