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Go To Part I II III IV V Table of Contents European.Commissioner.for.Human.Rights........................................................193 European.Committee.for.the.Prevention.of.Torture............................................194 European.Court.of.Human.Rights........................................................................195 European.Commission.against.Racism.and.Intolerance.....................................197 European.Committee.of.Social.Rights.................................................................198 European.Bank.for.Reconstruction.and.Development.Independent.. Recourse.Mechanism...........................................................................................201 European.Union.........................................................................................................208 European.Parliament.Committee.on.Petitions....................................................208 Organization.for.Security.and.Cooperation.in.Europe...............................................210 High.Commissioner.on.National.Minorities........................................................210 OSCE.Human.Dimension.Meetings......................................................................211 Annexes......................................................................................................................................212 Annex 1: The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.................................213 Annex 2: Bibliography and Websites............................................................................222 Guide to International Human Rights Mechanisms for Internally Displaced Persons and their Advocates xiv
Introduction This guide is meant for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and their advocates, including representatives of civil society and the staff of national and international humanitarian organizations. By publishing it, the Brookings Institution-University of Bern Project on Internal Displacement (“Project on Internal Displacement”) hopes to encourage and assist these people to use international human rights mechanisms, both at the global and regional levels, when governments fail to respect, protect and fulfill IDPs’ human rights. Few have taken advantage of these avenues to date, despite the many and frequently extreme human rights violations IDPs face. While it must be admitted that the power of most of the mechanisms is limited, they have nevertheless brought tangible results for many of those who have used them in the past and they might well be able to do so for IDPs. This work was inspired by the publication of an excellent and comprehensive volume on this subject edited by the late Professor Joan Fitzpatrick entitled: Human Rights Protection for Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Internally Displaced Persons: A Guide to International Mechanisms and Procedures ( Joan M. Fitzpatrick, ed., Transnational Publishers, Inc., 2002). For a time, the Project on Internal Displacement distributed copies of Professor Fitzpatrick’s book to partners in the field. However, it soon became clear that there was need for an IDP-specific guide that would also serve the needs of those lacking the time and inclination to become experts in international institutions and human rights law. This guide attempts to meet these needs, drawing in part on the work of Professor Fitzpatrick and her contributors. Unlike Professor Fitzpatrick’s book, this guide does not address the issues of refugees or asylum seekers and it therefore makes some different choices in the “human rights mechanisms” it describes. It generally includes those that: • identify themselves as human rights mechanisms, • enjoy official standing vis-à-vis governments through their association with a particular treaty or inter-governmental organization, • are accessible to IDPs or their advocates, either for individual complaints or to receive and act upon more general information about the situation of IDPs, and • focus on issues conceivably of interest and use to IDPs. This list being already quite long, a great many other international actors that can play important roles for the protection of IDPs’ rights, such as United Nations humanitarian and development agencies and non-governmental organizations, are not fully described. On the other hand, a few
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