Forced Migration Review: Ten Years of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
Friday, January 9th, 2009
A special issue of Forced Migration Review ‘Ten Years of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement’ is now in the digital library (FMR is one of five journals available).
This 40-page special issue of Forced Migration Review (FMR), published by the Refugee Studies Centre of Oxford University, reflects discussions at the international conference on the Ten Years of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement (‘GP10’) held in Oslo on 16-17 October 2008.
The FMR special issue includes shortened versions of some of the conference presentations, plus a selection of other articles, most of which present case studies on the application of the Guiding Principles in different countries.
Full Issue
Individual Articles
- The genesis and the challenges
- Achievements, challenges and recommendations
- Assessing the impact of the Principles: an unfinished task
- The Guiding Principles and the Responsibility to Protect
- Achievements and limitations of the Guiding Principles in Burma
- Protecting IDPs in Europe
- Experience of the Guiding Principles in Georgia
- Africa: from voluntary principles to binding standards
- Can the Guiding Principles make a difference in Kenya?
- Uganda’s response to displacement: contrasting policy and practice
- Guiding Principle 29 and the right to restitution
- Obstacles to realising Guiding Principle 29 in Afghanistan
- Seeking electoral equality for IDP voters
- Time to apply the Guiding Principles in Nepal
- Returnees in Sierra Leone
- Guiding Principle 27 and Philippine typhoon response
- Internal displacement in the Central African Republic
- UNHCR and the Guiding Principles
- Training to strengthen protection of IDP rights
- The future of the Guiding Principles