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How Can International Human Rights Law Protect Us from Disasters?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Elizabeth Ferris
Elizabeth Ferris*
Affiliation:
Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement; Foreign Policy (eferris@brookings.edu).
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Can International Norms Protect Us from Natural Disasters?
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 108 , 2014 , pp. 177 - 180
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2015

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References

1 See, e.g., Erica Harper, International Law and Standards Applicablein Natural Disaster Situations (2009); Kälin, Walter, The Human Rights Dimension of Natural or Human-Made Disasters, 55 Ger. Y.B. Int’l L. 119–47 (2012)Google Scholar.

2 International Law Commission (ILC), Draft Articles on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters, esp. arts. 6,7, 8 & 9, UN Doc. A/CN.4/L.776 (2010). For a listing of all relevant ILC documents, see http://legal.un.org/ilc/guide/6_3.htm.

3 Kälin, supra note 1, at 127–28; see also Eduardo Valencia-Ospina, Sixth Report on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters, 14–19, UN Doc. No. A/CN.4/662 (2013).

4 Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in Post-Disaster and Post-Conflict Situations, G.A. Res. 22/16, UN Doc. A/HRC/RES/22/16 (Apr. 10, 2013), www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/AdvisoryCom/A-HRC-RES-22-16_en.pdf.

5 Hyogo Declaration, World Conference on Disaster Reduction, UN Doc. A/CONF.20/L.3/Rev.1, para. 4 (Feb. 2, 2005), www.unisdr.org/2005/wcdr/intergover/official-doc/L-docs/Hyogo-declaration-english.pdf.

6 Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Gender Handbook in Humanitarian Action (Dec. 2006), www.humanitarianinfo.org/iasc/pageloader.aspx?page=content-subsidi-tf_gender-genderh.

7 UN Commission on Human Rights, Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, UN Doc. E/CN.4/1998/53/Add.2 (1998), www.brookings.edu/projects/idp/gp_page.aspx.

8 http://www.au.int/en/sites/default/files/african_union_convention_for_the_protection_and_assistance_of_internally_displaced_persons_in_africa_(kampala_convention).pdf.

9 Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Operational Guidelines on the Protection of Persons in Situations of Natural Disasters (Jan. 2011), http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2011/01/06-operational-guidelines-nd.