Activities

Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons

2023

Reply from the ICC Prosecutor regarding the Situation in the State of Palestine
26 April 2023

32 UN experts issue a joint letter to the ICC Prosecutor regarding the Situation in the State of Palestine and Annex
23 March 2023

Twenty-five years of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
A Call to Action: Ending the curse of internal displacement
By Paula Gaviria, Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons and Robert Piper, UN Secretary General’s Special Adviser on Solutions to Internal Displacement
17 April 2023

2022

Joint Statement by Gillian Triggs, UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, and Paula Gaviria Betancur, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
06 December 2022

Joint Statement by Gillian Triggs, UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection and Cecilia Jimenez-Damary, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of IDPs
19 August 2022

2021

Virtual side event to the UN General Assembly on the prevention of arbitrary displacement in armed conflict and generalized violence
4 November 2021

Special Rapporteur presents report on prevention of arbitrary displacement to the UN General Assembly Third Committee
27 October 2021

Joint Statement – Humanitarians protecting people in the climate change emergency
19 August 2021

Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on Gender-Based Violence in Tigray region of Ethiopia
23 March 2021

Joint Press Statement on Honduras: UN and IACHR experts call for the immediate adoption of a law on the protection of internally displaced persons (in Spanish)
27 January 2021

2020

Prevention, Protection and Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons: GP20 Plan of Action
2018-2020

The Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons moderated the Intersessional Seminar on human rights and internally displaced persons mandated by the Human Rights Council
(Informal summary)
29 October 2020

UN General Assembly online side event on Internal displacement in the context of climate change: Advancing a human rights-based approach to prevention, response and solutions
20 October 2020

Joint Press Statement on Ukrainian resolution on voting as a key step towards guaranteeing the rights of displaced persons
(Also in Russian | Ukrainian - PDF)
16 June 2020

Press statement on the 22nd anniversary of the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
(Also in French | Spanish)
17 April 2020

2019

Joint Statement by the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of IDPs, UNHCR, OCHA and IOM to mark the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Kampala Convention
23 October 2019

Joint Statement: IACHR and the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons Welcome Decision for the protection of internally displaced persons in Mexico
17 April 2019

2018

Workshop Summary Report: 2018 Workshop on the Role of National Human Rights Institutions in Promoting and Protecting the Human Rights of IDPs

Opinion piece on Cameroon: four priorities to strengthen protection for internally displaced persons (PDF)
16 November 2018

States, UN, partners in new joint push to help people displaced in their own countries, joint press release by the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of IDPs and UNHCR
18 April 2018

Open letter: The Rapporteur calls upon States to include IDPs in the Global Compact on safe, regular and orderly migration (PDF)
12 March 2018

2017

UN report urges Sudan to act over plight of displaced people in Darfur
21 November 2017

IACHR and UN Special Rapporteur on Internally Displaced Persons Welcome the recommendation of Mexico´s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) for the protection of internally displaced persons in Mexico
17 November 2017

IACHR and UN Special Rapporteur on Internally Displaced Persons Welcome Decisions in El Salvador (Word)
(Also available in Spanish)
27 October 2017

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