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Internally Displaced: Secretary-General Representative returns to Azerbaijan

Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of internally displaced persons (A/HRC/13/21)

Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Walter Kälin - Addendum - Follow-up visit to the mission to Serbia and Montenegro (including Kosovo) in 2005 (A/HRC/13/21/Add.1)

Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of internally displaced persons - Mission to Somalia (A/HRC/13/21/Add.2)

Follow-up to the report on the mission to Georgia (A/HRC/13/21/Add.3)

Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Walter Kälin - Addendum - Framework on Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons (A/HRC/13/21/Add.4)

Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Walter Kälin - Addendum - Mission to the Republic of Chad (A/HRC/13/21/Add.5)

AU Convention on Internally Displaced: “A beacon of hope for 12 million Africans,” says UN Representative

 

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Mr. Walter Kälin

Mr. Walter Kälin is a Swiss legal scholar and professor of constitutional and international law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bern. Mr. Kälin has been closely concerned with issues of IDPs for over a decade, having served as chair of the committee of legal experts that developed the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and having authored numerous books on the subject, including the Annotations to the Guiding Principles (American Society of International Law, Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, 2008, revised edition).

Mr. Kälin was a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee from 2003-2008. From 1991-1992, Kälin served as the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Kuwait under Iraqi Occupation.

To contact the Representative:

Contact person	E-Mail address:
Ms. Rosa da Costa Mr. Jan Hessbruegge	idp@ohchr.org idp@ohchr.org
Mailing Address
Mr. Walter Kälin Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of internally displaced persons Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Palais des Nations CH-1211 Geneva 10 Fax: + 41 22 917 9006 Switzerland

Representative(s) of the Secretary-General:

Mr. Walter Kälin (Switzerland), since 2004

Mr. Francis Deng (Sudan), 1992-2004