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Title Human rights protection for refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced persons : a guide to international mechanisms and procedures / Joan Fitzpatrick, editor
Published Ardsley, NY : Transnational Publishers, 2002

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Description xxxi, 665 pages ; 24 cm
Series Procedural aspects of international law series
Procedural aspects of international law series.
Contents The human rights of refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced persons: a basic introduction / Joan Fitzpatrick -- Protection under the complaint procedures of the United Nations Treaty Bodies / Anne Bayefsky, Stephanie Farrior, Karen Hanrahan, and Andrew Langham -- The United Nations charter-based mechanisms / Camille Giffard and Meagan Hrle -- African regional mechanisms that can be utilized on behalf of the forcibly displaced / Chidi Anselm Odinkalu and Monette Zard -- European human rights mechanisms / Diane Atkinson-Sanford -- The Inter-American mechanisms / Beth Lyon and Soren Rottman -- International criminal tribunals : refugees and internally displaced persons who may be witnesses before the tribunals / Åsa Rydberg and Kelly Askin -- Internationalized legal structures and the protection of internally displaced persons / Marcus Cox and Christopher Harland
Summary "This volume provides a detailed and concrete analysis of how human rights complaints mechanisms can be accessed by refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced persons. The Guide offers a thorough explanation of the United Nations human rights treaty bodies, with a focus upon the four committees authorized to receive communications from individuals." - Book jacket
Analysis Refugees
Human rights
UN conventions
Internal migration
Complaints
International law
Overseas item
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Asylum, Right of.
Migration, Internal.
Human rights.
Author Fitzpatrick, Joan (Joan M.)
LC no. 2001052220
ISBN 1571050612