PRÓLOGO Los derechos humanos no desaparecen en el momento en que ocurre un terremoto, un huracán o un tsunami. Después del tsunami en el Océano Índico, el terremoto en Haití y en muchas otras...
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Climate Change and Internal Displacement: A Contribution to the Discussion
Prepared for UNHCR Bellagio Roundtable, 22-26 February 2011 By Elizabeth Ferris "The commonality of climate change as a driver is an insufficient rationale for grouping together a disparate array of...
Afghanistan + 1 more
Access During Humanitarian Crises: Barriers to Protection and Assistance
EVENT SUMMARY In many situations of armed conflict, humanitarian aid organizations are prevented from providing assistance and protection to civilians in need. Sometimes the aid groups are blocked by...
Poverty in Numbers: The Changing State of Global Poverty from 2005 to 2015
Poverty reduction lies at the core of the global development challenge. For the international development community, this objective serves not only as a source of motivation, but as a defining theme...
IASC Operational Guidelines on the Protection of Persons in Situations of Natural Disasters
This is a revised version of the 2006 IASC Operational Guidelines on Human Rights and Natural Disasters. To request a hard copy, please contact Adam Pienciak at apienciak@brookings.edu. Natural...
Haiti: One Year After the Earthquake
EVENT SUMMARY One year since the earthquake that devastated Haiti, the government and people of Haiti continue to experience a multitude of hardships. Massive displacement, a devastated...
Human Rights, Democracy and Displacement in Georgia
Event Summary Since the conflicts over Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the early 1990s, violence has erupted several times in Georgia, most notably in August 2008. Large-scale human rights violations...
OPT: Incorporating Protection into Humanitarian Action: Approaches and Limits
November 04, 2010 - Editor's Note: In a presentation to a conference in Beirut, Lebanon hosted by the American University of Beirut and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine...
Haiti + 1 more
Natural Disasters and Human Rights: Comparing Responses to Haiti and Pakistan
Elizabeth Ferris, Co-Director, Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement The Brookings Institution This presentation was conducted at the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at...
China + 1 more
Legal Grounds for Protection of North Korean Refugees
North Korea, Human Rights, Northeast Asia, Internal Displacement Roberta Cohen, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Citizens' Alliance for North Korean Human Rights, Seoul Fall 2010 - Several...
Burning Issues for Haiti's Recovery
Haiti, Natural Disasters, Human Rights, Internal Displacement Elizabeth Ferris, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy National Council of Churches' Working Group on Haiti September 09, 2010 - In a...
Responding to the Historic Floods in Pakistan: Political and Security Considerations
On September 1, the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement hosted a discussion on the challenges the Pakistani government and the international community face in responding to the flooding...
Haiti Six Months On
JULY 12, 2010 - It's now been six months since the devastating Haitian earthquake which left more than 200,000 people dead, more than a million homeless and a massive reconstruction task ahead. While...
Human Rights: A Means of Engaging North Korea
Roberta Cohen, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy 38 North, U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS June 2010 - Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared in 38 North, a website devoted to the...
Improving the U.S. Response to Internal Displacement: Recommendations to the Obama Administration and the Congress
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY As the single largest donor of humanitarian aid, the US response is critical to determining how effectively internally displaced persons (IDPs), refugees and other affected...
Beyond the Blanket: Towards More Effective Protection for Internally Displaced Persons in Southern Afghanistan
Internal displacement is generally regarded as a natural, albeit unfortunate, byproduct of armed conflict that implies a response by the national government concerned and increasingly, by the...
Afghanistan + 1 more
Internally Displaced Persons in Pakistan and Afghanistan: A Report from the Field
Listen to the full event audio Event Summary The people of Pakistan and Afghanistan have faced considerable strife over the past decade as a result of the ongoing conflict and tribal tensions...
Regional Workshop on Protecting and Promoting Rights in Natural Disasters in South-East Asia: Prevention and Response
Background South-East Asia is a theater for disaster.=A8 In the past decade alone, floods, cyclones, earthquakes, droughts, and a devastating tsunami destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives and...
IASC Framework on Durable Solutions for IDPs
Introduction Displacement is a life-changing event. While the often traumatic experience of displacement cannot be undone, internally displaced persons (IDPs) need to be able to resume a normal life...
Serbia + 12 more
Reconciling R2P with IDP Protection
By: Roberta Cohen Introduction The concept of the responsibility to protect (R2P) developed in large measure from efforts to design an international system to protect internally displaced persons...