GEOG 353 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: United Nations Human Rights Committee, United Nations General Assembly, Self-Determination
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Disaster-induced displacement: can be natural floods, landslides, earthquades, human generated : desertification, salination, rising ocean levels etc, frequently, causes = mixed, 25 million people in this situation in the world. International covenant on civil and political rights: created in 1966 out of the failutre for a consensus on the universal declaration, monitored by un human rights committee. Life: self determination; freedom of thought, conscience, opinion and religion. Leave any country, including one"s own: protection from slavery, servitude,genocide. 1967: protocol relating to status of refugees added: extended convention beyond 1951 and also outside europe, also regional agreements that have been made in africa and latin america. Also require signatories to adopt certain practices, particularly non-refoulement: refoulement: practice of sending a person back to a place where they could be harmed. But practices are interpreted differently by countries(e. g temporary vs permanent protection) Temporary protection(often in camps: but it can become permanent.
