7 Million Internally Displaced People Live in Central Africa - They Need More Support TC_Africa: CentralAfrica
All over the world, the management of internally displaced people can be a challenge. It requires resources and political will.
As a scholar with expertise in the legal promotion and protection of the rights of the people"on the move" in Africa, I argue that adopting a specific regional protocol could ease the management of displaced people in the region. A protocol is an instrument that creates legally binding obligations to international law.
In this case, the protocol would, among other things, legally bind countries to respect not only the new provisions contained in it but also the provisions of the. This is a continent-wide treaty which the African Union adopted in 2009 to protect and assist internally displaced people in Africa. The mechanism of enforcement established in the protocol should complement and help to enforce the provisions of the Kampala Convention.The Kampala Convention provides solutions for the return, relocation or resettlement of the internally displaced. It also provides for displaced people to seek redress for housing, land and property losses. Physical, mental and other types of harms are included too.
But it's not clear whether these services are accessible in practice. The problem is that the Kampala Convention is for the whole continent and lacks clear enforcement mechanisms.
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