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The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: An Innovation in International Standard Setting

The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: An Innovation in International Standard Setting Global Governance 10 (2004), 459–480 The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: An Innovation in International Standard Setting Roberta Cohen n the last decade of the twentieth century, an explosion of civil wars brought a pressing new problem onto the international agenda—the I plight of internally displaced persons (IDPs), people forced from their homes by conflict, communal violence, or egregious human rights violations who remain uprooted and at risk within the borders of their own countries. The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees did not apply to them, and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) had no automatic mandate to assist them, because unlike refugees they did not flee across borders. Rather, they remained inside their own countries under the jurisdiction of their own governments, the very governments that may have caused their displacement in the first place and that were often unwilling or unable to provide for their well- being and security. It was not until the 1990s that the absence of an international system for IDPs began to be noticed and more traditional notions of sovereignty questioned. One of the more vivid examples of this change in attitude was a new set of international standards http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations Brill

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Brill
Copyright
Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1075-2846
eISSN
1942-6720
DOI
10.1163/19426720-01004006
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Abstract

Global Governance 10 (2004), 459–480 The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: An Innovation in International Standard Setting Roberta Cohen n the last decade of the twentieth century, an explosion of civil wars brought a pressing new problem onto the international agenda—the I plight of internally displaced persons (IDPs), people forced from their homes by conflict, communal violence, or egregious human rights violations who remain uprooted and at risk within the borders of their own countries. The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees did not apply to them, and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) had no automatic mandate to assist them, because unlike refugees they did not flee across borders. Rather, they remained inside their own countries under the jurisdiction of their own governments, the very governments that may have caused their displacement in the first place and that were often unwilling or unable to provide for their well- being and security. It was not until the 1990s that the absence of an international system for IDPs began to be noticed and more traditional notions of sovereignty questioned. One of the more vivid examples of this change in attitude was a new set of international standards

Journal

Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International OrganizationsBrill

Published: Aug 3, 2004

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