Internally Displaced People
Internally Displaced People

Author: Janie Hampton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-14

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1136547053

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The number of internally displaced people far outnumbers estimated refugees who have fled their countries. The majority of displaced populations survive with very little security or legal protection. Responding to the needs of internally displaced people is one of the greatest humanitarian challenges of our time.;Revised and updated from the first edition, this volume includes information on internal displacement in 47 different countries across the globe - that is to say all countries experiencing conflict-induced displacement at the time of publication. There is discussion of the causes of displacement, patterns of flight, protection concerns and international response.

Learner-centred Education in International Perspective
Learner-centred Education in International Perspective

Author: Michele Schweisfurth

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0415600723

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Explores debates around learner-centred education (or child-centred education) as a strategy for developing teachers' classroom practice and asks whether a 'Western' construct is appropriate for application in all societies and classrooms.

Legal Discrepancies: Internal Displacement of Women and Children in Africa
Legal Discrepancies: Internal Displacement of Women and Children in Africa

Author: Veronica Patience Fynn

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-09-29

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0557509874

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Veronica Fynn's "Legal Discrepancies: Internal Displacement of Women and Children in Africa" is not only timely (produced soon after Africa adopts its historical Convention on the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced People in Africa, 2009). "Legal Discrepancies: Legal Discrepancies: Internal Displacement of Women and Children in Africa" offers the first comprehensive, holistic, and multi-disciplinary examination on the efficacy of international, regional and national laws and policies in protecting and assisting IDPs. Fynn's research provides a thought provoking framework for academics, lawyers, public health practitioners, aid workers, national governments, regional institutions and international organizations to rethink the legal space within which internally displaced peoples lingers.

Internal Displacement
Internal Displacement

Author: Thomas G. Weiss

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-09-27

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1135985480

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This new volume traces the normative, legal, institutional, and political responses to the challenges of assisting and protecting internally displaced persons (IDPs). The crisis of IDPs was first confronted in the 1980s, and the problems of those suffering from this type of forced migration has grown continually since then. Drawing on official and confidential documents as well as interviews with leading personalities, Internal Displacement provides an unparalleled analysis of this important issue and includes: an exploration of the phenomenon of internal displacement and of policy research about it a review of efforts to increase awareness about the plight of IDPs and the development of a legal framework to protect them a 'behind-the-scenes' look at the creation and evolution of the mandate of the Representative of the Secretary-General on IDPs a variety of case studies illustrating the difficulties in overcoming the operational shortcomings within the UN system a foreword by former UN high commissioner for refugees, Sadako Ogata. Internal Displacement will appeal to students and scholars with interests in war and peace, forced migration, human rights and global governance.

State of the World's Children
State of the World's Children

Author: UNICEF.

Publisher: UNICEF

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9280644424

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On 20 November 2009, the global community celebrates the 20th anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the unique document that sets international standards for the care, treatment and protection of all individuals below age 18. To celebrate this landmark, the United Nations Children's Fund is dedicating a special edition of its flagship report The State of the World's Children to examining the Convention's evolution, progress achieved on child rights, challenges remaining, and actions to be taken to ensure that its promise becomes a reality for all children.

Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Author: Rachel Hodgkin

Publisher: United Nations Publications

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 787

ISBN-13: 9789280641837

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"The Handbook aims to be a practical tool for implementation, explaining and illustrating the implications of each article of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and of the two Optional Protocols adopted in 2000 as well as their interconnections."--P. xvii.