2005 Human rights and mass exodus

Monitoring the human rights of persons in mass exodus

The internally displaced constitute a specific category of people affected by mass exodus.

Recent examples of mass exodus, both as a result of armed conflict and as a consequence of massive natural disasters, have highlighted the need to address comprehensively the human rights of victims of mass exodus.

Human rights violations are most often the root as well as immediate cause of mass exodus.

To be fully understood, the phenomena of mass exodus and displacement must also be viewed within this framework.

Alongside the traditional causes of mass exodus, the Secretary General identified a number of specific environmental issues that had the potential to provoke mass exoduses in the future.

At each of these stages, persons in mass exodus have specific human rights entitlements under international law, arising from a variety of sources.

National human rights institutions also play an important role in promoting national responsibility and reinforcing protection of the rights of persons in mass exodus.

There's this large, consolidated farming that's led to what we eat in America, and it's really been since around 1980, after the oil crisis, when, you know, mass consolidation, mass exodus of small farmers in this country.

As recognized by the Commission in its resolution 2003 52, conflict and persecution are only two among a number of causes for mass exodus and displacement.

At the same time, human rights treaty bodies have worked to have persons in mass exodus recognized within the overall framework of the rights established in the treaties.

The four previous reports to the General Assembly on human rights and mass exoduses (A 52 494, A 54 360, A 56 334 and A 58 186) demonstrated the profound connection between human rights and mass exodus and forced displacement.

Taking note of the work in progress of the United Nations system to clarify the role of the United Nations in post conflict transition situations, including mass exodus situations,

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The respective capacities and competencies of all such bodies must be integrated into a comprehensive response to a situation of mass exodus in order that prompt and complete relief may be provided.

Given the regional repercussions of many situations of mass exodus and displacement, regional bodies also have an important role to play in protecting the human rights of persons caught up in such situations.

The mass exodus of people had come up against restrictive, unjust and xenophobic policies in host countries which, instead of trying to find solutions to the problem and its causes, only aggravated the situation.

Further cooperation among States, the United Nations and other international partners will be required to overcome these obstacles and to ensure that the rights of persons in situations of mass exodus are respected, protected and fulfilled.

Welcomes the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on human rights and mass exoduses (E CN.4 2005 80 and Add.1), and stresses that the themes identified in the addendum reflect those issues that continue to require particular attention by States in references to mass exodus situations

Human rights treaty bodies have also advanced their understanding of the situation of persons in mass exodus and displacement as being one of particular vulnerability, with corresponding needs and sensitivities that may often differ from those of other rights holders.

With such analytical frameworks and the contributions of other parts of the United Nations system, the human rights treaty bodies are well placed to enhance their ability to monitor and ensure the protection of persons in mass exodus and displacement.

When Puerto Rico had begun its transformation from an impoverished sugar plantation into a modern industrial centre, it had been decided that there were too many Puerto Ricans on the island consequently, a mass exodus to the United States had taken place.

Welcomes the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on human rights and mass exoduses (E CN.4 2005 80) and the addendum thereto (E CN.4 2005 80 Add.1), and stresses that the themes identified in the addendum reflect those issues that continue to require particular attention by States in references to mass exodus situations

Throughout the 1990 s, they virtually opted out of Serbian run Kosovo by creating parallel institutions. Their forced mass exodus in 1999 and NATO s subsequent intervention, which ended Serbia s rule and established a quasi state under UN administration, has made anything other than independence intolerable.

What will deter the next Central American dictator and murderer if the Cubans are given a free pass? Invoking pragmatism to justify continued human rights violations in Cuba merely because economic reforms might dissuade a mass exodus to Mexico and Florida is a bad idea.

For the most part, it matters little whether the persons in or affected by mass exodus are citizens of that State, for with the exception of a few rights such as the political rights to vote and take part in public affairs, human rights extend to everyone.

During the reporting period, UNHCR and UNICEF shared their observations in relation to the preparation of a general comment on the administration of justice under consideration by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, raising issues of particular importance to child victims of mass exodus.

The continuing exodus of young people has been a concern to the Islanders for many years.

At the international level, the human rights treaty bodies and the special procedures of the Commission on Human Rights play equally important roles in monitoring and assessing the human rights dimensions of situations of mass exodus in States where such movements take place or which are affected by such movements.

With sustained attention to the capacity gaps and the measures needed to implement the Secretary General's proposals for humanitarian reform, the United Nations is striving to avoid the creation of situations of mass exodus and, where this is not possible, to respond to the violations of these persons' human rights swiftly and appropriately.

Alongside the Representative of the Secretary General on the human rights of internally displaced persons, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants and the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, whose thematic mandates consistently implicate victims of mass exodus, and other special procedures, both thematic and country oriented, have often raised issues of the human rights of victims of mass exoduses in their work.

Likewise, Foreign Minister Mahmoud Al Zahar of the Hamas led government says that any dissolution of the government or call for early elections by Abbas would be a recipe for civil war. Fear of major fighting has already sent many Palestinians into Egypt, leading to the deployment of Egyptian troops on the border to control any mass exodus.

In this respect, briefings to human rights treaty bodies by, in particular, UNHCR and UNICEF have been key in raising human rights issues affecting persons in mass exodus, sensitizing the treaty bodies to the particular needs of such persons and providing an actual basis for constructive dialogue with States parties to the respective treaties on such situations.

Bumped into Eurasia around 16 million years ago, and then we had the first African exodus, as we call it.

The Office noted that, following the reintroduction of granting British citizenship for Saints in 2002, the island had experienced an exodus.

This three way interrelationship was most apparent in situations of exodus and displacement of large numbers of people around the world.

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In recent years and in a variety of circumstances, OHCHR has deployed monitors and facilitators to assess the enjoyment of human rights by persons, inter alia in situations of mass exodus or displacement activities of human rights components of missions of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, as well as of UNHCR and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have also been crucial.

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In other words, the exodus of human capital, while providing a source of currency in the short term hampers our countries' long term development.

The final declarations of two recent round tables of NHRIs concerning migration (Mexico, 2004) and race relations (New Zealand, 2004), as well as of the 2004 annual meeting of the members of the International Coordinating Committee of National Human Rights Institutions, held in Seoul, highlighted the role these institutions can play in addressing the human rights issues at the root of mass exodus and displacement.

The Special Rapporteur presented as fact his allegations that Israel intended to confiscate Palestinian land, encourage an exodus of Palestinians and incorporate settlers into Israel.

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