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Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of internally displaced persons (A/65/282)

General Assembly

Sixty-fifth session

Item 69 (b) of the provisional agenda*

Promotion and protection of human rights:

human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms

Summary

The present report outlines the major activities undertaken by the Representative during the period from August 2009 to July 2010. It also provides a thematic review of the responsibility of States to provide humanitarian assistance and of the rights of internally

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Committee against Torture opens forty-third session in Geneva

Committee against Torture

Representative of the Secretary-General Briefs Committee on New Developments

The Committee against Torture this morning opened its forty-third session at the Palais Wilson in Geneva, hearing an address by, and having a dialogue with a representative of the Secretary-General, Ibrahim Salama, Chief of the Human Rights and Treaty Branch of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). The Committee also adopted its agenda and programme of work for the session.

Mr. Salama, drawing attention to a number

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The ICRC's activities in favour of the displaced: 2008 overview

Report
ICRC
In 2008, armed conflicts and other situations of violence shattered the lives of large numbers of children, women and men in many countries among which the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Georgia, Pakistan, Somalia, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Chad and Colombia. Direct attacks on civilian communities, general insecurity and the destruction of livelihoods forced innumerable civilians to flee their homes. Assisting and protecting internally displaced people (IDPs), who are protected under international humanitarian law (IHL) and other relevant international law,