THE PROCESS AND PROSPECTS FOR THE U.N. GUIDING PRINCIPLES ON INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT TO BECOME CUSTOMARY INTERNATIONAL LAW: A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT

From: Georgetown Journal of International Law | Date: April 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

I. INTRODUCTION

In 1992, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights decided to appoint a Representative of the Secretary-General to study the global crisis of internal displacement; Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali asked Dr. Francis Deng to fill the position.1 At the outset, the Representa tive recognized that, unlike the protection afforded refugees by the 1951 Convention on Refugees,2 there was no analogous international treaty for protecting the internally displaced.3 The Commission on Human Rights and the General Assembly asked the Representative to work with a team of legal experts to ...

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