African IDP Convention

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The Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa was signed today by 17 countries. It will enter into force after ratification by 15 African Union members states, making it the first legally-binding instrument to focus on the rights of populations displaced within their own countries.

For more information, see:

An African Solution to Internal Displacement: AU Leaders Agree to Landmark Convention (Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement) [text]

African Union adopts major convention to protect and assist the internally displaced (UNHCR) [text]

African Union adopts treaty on internal refugees (Reuters) [text]

Intervention by Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes to the Assembly of Heads of State and Government at the AU Special Summit on Refugees, Returnees and IDPs in Africa (OCHA) [text]

Member states sign AU convention for the protection and assistance of internally displaced persons (African Press Commission) [text]

NRC and IDMC welcome African Union convention on IDPs (IDMC) [text]

Recommendations of the Civil Society Meeting on African Union mechanisms and the Protection
of Refugee, IDP and Citizenship Rights (International Refugee Rights Initiative) [text]

Root causes and prevention of internal displacement: the ICRC perspective - Statement by Jakob Kellenberger, President of the ICRC (ICRC) [text]

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