Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons

Country Visits

Country visits are a particularly important aspect of the mandate as they provide a means for assessing the extent to which the protection needs of the internally displaced are being met in specific situations and for engaging with Governments, non-state actors, international and local humanitarian agencies, local civil society, displaced persons, and other interested actors.

Since 2005, the mandate on the human rights of internally dispalced persons has undertaken the following visits: in 2005 to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia , Nepal , Serbia and Montenegro, and Sudan; in 2006 to Georgia, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia and Colombia; in 2007 to Sri Lanka, Central African Republic, and Azerbaijan; in 2008 to Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Georgia; in 2009 to Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad Somalia and Georgia; in 2010 to Georgia, Iraq, Central African Republic and Azerbaijan. Full reports on these visits are available under the rubric 'Documents' or 'Country Visits' in this website, as are the press releases under 'Press Releases.' In July 2011, the Special Rapporteur, Chaloka Beyani, visited the Maldives.

Reports from country missions of the former Representative of the Secretary-General on internally displaced persons, Walter Kaelin and Francis M. Deng, are listed here in reverse chronological order.

To access the reports in all the official languages, please copy the relevant document code, click on “Categorized Search”, and paste it in the “Symbol Number” Field or alternatively search under "Documents"