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Antidiscrimination, Asylum and Migration BIM Annual Report 2008
Protecting Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs): A Manual for Law and Policymakers
Summary
The IDP Legislator’s Manual Project – Vienna Expert Meeting 2008 took place on 16 and 17 May and
was the third and final contribution of the BIM to the elaboration of the IDP Manual. Further to the comparative
study of 2005, which provided an overview of the existing domestic legal norms for the protection
of IDPs in various countries, and the IDP Consultative Meeting in 2006, the final draft of the manual
was presented and discussed with invited experts. On the basis of this feedback, the manual was
revised and eventually published in October 2008.
The purpose of the overall project was to provide policy and law makers on a national level, who are
confronted with the difficult task to ensure an adequate protection and support of IDPs, with a manual
enabling them to put the general “UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement” into practice.
The overall project was led by Walter Kälin, Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the human
rights of IDPs.
The manual can be downloaded at
http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2008/1016_internal_displacement.aspx
Countries
Persons
involved
global
Project Coordination (BIM)
Project leader (BIM)
Roland Schmidt, Andrea Sölkner
Manfred Nowak
Contact person
Roland Schmidt roland.schmidt@univie.ac.at
Andrea Sölkner; andrea.soelkner@univie.ac.at
Lead
organisation
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute
of Human Rights
Partner
organisations
Brookings – Bern Project on
Internal Displacement/The
Brookings Institution, Washington
(D.C)
Starting/
end date
2005 to 2008
Funded by
Austrian Development Agency
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