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The Politics of International Law: Transformation of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement from Soft Law into Hard Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Chaloka Beyani
Chaloka Beyani*
Affiliation:
Law Department, London School of Economics
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Hardening Soft Law: Implementation of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 102 , 2008 , pp. 194 - 198
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2008

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References

1 See United Nations Economic and Social Council Res. 1990/78, 27 July 1990; Report of the Secretary General on the Review of the Capacity, Experience and Coordination Arrangements in the United Nations system for Humanitarian Assistance, UN Doc, A/46/568/1991.

2 Human Rights Commission Res. 1991/25 of 5 March 1991. At its Forty-eighth session in 1992, the Human Rights Commission received the Analytical Report of the Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons titled, Alternative Approaches and Ways and Means within the United Nations System for improving the effective Enjoyment of Human Rights, E/CN.4/1992/23.

3 Human Rights Commission Res. 1992/73, approved by the Economic and Social Council on 20 July 1992.

4 The Addis Ababa Document on Refugees and Forced Population Displacements in Africa, adopted by the OAU/UNHCR Symposium on Refugees and Forced Population Displacements in Africa 8-10th September 1994.

5 In attendance were Kofi Annan as UN Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs, former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Madam Sadako Ogata, the former Secretary-General of the OAU, Salim Salim, former Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Chief Ameka Onyaoku, and a host of academics, including the author.

6 African Union, Decision on the Situation of Refugees, Returnees and Displaced Persons, Executive Council Decision EX/CL/Dec.127.