The African Union IDPs Convention

The Convention would be the first international instrument of its kind and would send a signal to the rest of the world about the seriousness with which Africa, home to around half of the global total of internally displaced persons (IDPs), considers the issue.

As the Convention nears the point of adoption, eleven leading African and international NGOs outline their ‘implementation agenda’ – those key steps which AU member states should take to convert the Convention from a legal text on paper into an effective instrument enabling improvements to IDPs’ security and welfare in practice.

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