Protecting internally displaced persons
Subtitle: a manual for law and policymakers
By: Brookings Institution-University of Bern Project on Internal Displacement.
Contributors: Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement.
Publisher: Brookings Institution-University of Bern Project on Internal Displacement
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Internally displaced persons -- Legal status, laws, etc; Political refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc
Notes: "October 2008.".

"The drafting of the manual was overseen by a Steering Group of experts from leading UN and other international agencies and organizations, regional human rights bodies, and academic institutions comprising Simon Bagshaw (UN OCHA), Guillermo Bettocchi (UNHCR), Janelle Diller (ILO), Maria Teresa Dutli (Head of the Advisory Service on International Humanitarian Law, ICRC), Lisa Jones (UN OCHA), Miloon Kothari (UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate  standard of living), Susan Martin (Georgetown University), Barbara McCallin (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre of the Norwegian Refugee Council), Manfred Nowak (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights, University of Vienna and UN Special Rapporteur on torture), and Bahame Nyanduga (Special Rapporteur on Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons in Africa of  the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights)....  Elizabeth Ferris and Khalid Koser drafted short sections of the manual, and Erin Wiliams edited it...The manual was prepared by Rhodri C. Williams" -- iv-v.

Includes bibliographical references (p.269-272) and index.

Also available in PDF from the Brookings Institution web site.