As background to Chris Huggins’ post (below) on the regional significance of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights recent decision on indigenous land rights in Kenya, readers are referred to the concise and comprehensively hyperlinked overview provided by the Jurist website (hats off to Andrew Solomon for the tip). The decision itself (Communication 276/2003) weighs in at eighty pages but merits the reading – I’ll post tomorrow with some observations on its significance for international law and practice.
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- Environmental Peacebuilding, vol. 1 – High Value Natural Resources (2012)
- FICHL – Distributive Justice in Transitions (2010)
- Forum of Federations – Access to Property Rights: Integrating Indigenous communities into the Federal scheme (2010)
- HIC-HLRN, The Land and Its People – Natural Resources in the MENA Region (2015)
- ODI – Uncharted Territory: Land, Conflict and Humanitarian Action (2009)
HLP Resources
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- Norwegian Refugee Council – HLP
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Int'l law & standards
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- CoE Framework Convention on National Minorities
- Dana Declaration on Mobile Peoples
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- HLP Checklist for Humanitarian and Resident Coordinators
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- ILO Convention No. 169
- Kothari Principles on Development-Based Evictions
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- Nairobi Declaration on Women's and Girls' Right to Reparations
- NYU Law School Global Legal Research Tools
- PACE Resolution 1708 (2010) – Property Issues of Displaced Persons
- Refugee Convention and Protocol
- UN Audiovisual Library of International Law
- UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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- UNHCR Exec Comm Conclusion No. 101 (LV) – 2004 – Voluntary Repatriation
- UNHCR Exec Comm Conclusion No. 109 (LXI) – 2009 – Protracted Refugee Situations
- Van Boven/Bassiouni Principles
- World Bank Involuntary Resettlement Policy
- World Bank OP on Indigenous Peoples
My recent work
- 7th Course on the Law of Internal Dislacement
- IDMC Overview on Displacement in Serbia, Dec. 2010
- Incorporating the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement into Domestic Law: Issues and Challenges
- Land and Natural Disasters: Guidance for Practitioners
- Post-Conflict Land Guidelines
- Post-Conflict Natural Resource Management Project
- Protecting Internally Displaced Persons: A Manual for Law and Policymakers
- Report on Solving Property Issues of Refugees and Displaced Persons, CoE PACE
- Second Expert Seminar on Protracted Internal Displacement: Is Local Integration a Solution?
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