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Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
2026
Statement on the 28th anniversary of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
17 April 2026
English & Español
Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) - End impunity for violations of rules of war
11 April 2026
2025
Joint statement on the commemoration of the 16th anniversary of the Kampala Convention
8 December 2025
English | Français
Statement on the third Cross-Regional Forum on Implementing Law and Policy on Internal Displacement.
16 October 2025
English | Español
VII Summit of the Network on Human Mobility and Trafficking in Persons of the Ibero-American Federation of the Ombudsperson (in Spanish)
27-28 August 2025
Conference on internal displacement in the context of organized crime delivered at El Bosque University in Colombia (in Spanish)
19 August 2025
Conference on internal displacement in the context of the climate and environmental crisis delivered at UNDP in Colombia (in Spanish)
24 July 2025
Video statement on the 2nd National Conference and launch of the #IDPBillMyBill campaign in the Philippines
17 July 2025
Virtual dialogue on climate-related internal displacement in Mexico (in Spanish)
10 July 2025
FONAREV’s National Forum on the Right to Reparations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (in French)
1-4 July 2025
Launch of the Coalition on Dignified Climate-related Planned Relocation
25 June 2025
RINDHCA’s International Congress on Human Mobility and Human Rights, held in Panama (in Spanish)
29-30 April 2025
Joint statement by the Solutions Champions on the 27 years of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement (also available in Spanish)
17 April 2025
Video interview on internal displacement in Gaza at ‘Now You Know’ podcast
25 March 2025
Opening remarks at the launch of the second Global Report on Law and Policy on Internal Displacement
10 March 2025
Virtual statement at a panel on “Global South Perspectives on Internally Displaced Persons”
13 February 2025
2024
Joint statement on the 15th anniversary of the Kampala Convention, by Ruven Menikdiwela, UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, and Paula Gaviria Betancur, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons (also available in French | Spanish)
6 December 2024
Workshop ‘Strengthening the Participation of IDPs: Obstacles and Opportunities’ (also available in French | Spanish)
5-6 December 2024
Visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of the IDP Protection Expert Group (IPEG)
24-30 November 2024
Side event on Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives on Human Mobility in Climate Adaptations and Loss & Damage at COP29 (video)
15 November 2024
Side event on human rights-based approaches to planned relocation in the context of disasters and climate change at COP 2029 (video)
15 November 2024
Side event on remaking a home in displacement at the World Urban Forum in Egypt
7 November 2024
Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee: Stop the assault on Palestinians in Gaza and on those trying to help them (also available in Arabic | Hebrew)
1 November 2024
Expert Commentary “IDPs as a Special Category of Concern: Don’t Dim the Light,” co-authored by members of the IDP Protection Expert Group (IPEG)
2 October 2024
Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
23 September 2024
Cross-Regional Forum on Implementing Laws and Policies, on Internal Displacement in Africa (also available in French)
18-20 September 2024
Conference at the 5th Inter-American Course on Migration and Protection
11-13 September 2024
Open Letter to the Member States of the UN General Assembly, on behalf of the IASC Principals, on the World Humanitarian Day (also available in Arabic | Chinese | French | Russian | Spanish)
19 August 2024
High-level panel on durable solutions for internal displacement, 23rd plenary meeting, 2024 ECOSOC (video)
24 June 2024
Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on famine in Sudan (also available in Arabic)
31 May 2024
Keynote remarks at 2024 Global Conference on Internally Displaced People
18 April 2024
Participation at the ‘Internal Displacement and Solutions’ Conference
15 March 2024
IASC high-level launch of the Independent Review of Humanitarian Response to Internal Displacement
13 March 2024
2023
Response to request for an Advisory Opinion by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Human Mobility and Climate Change
7 December 2023
Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee: Humanitarian chiefs will not take part in unilateral proposals to create “safe zones” in Gaza (also available in Arabic | Hebrew)
16 November 2023
Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, on the situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, "We need an immediate humanitarian ceasefire" (also available in Arabic | Spanish)
5 November 2023
Panel at the IDMC Internal Displacement Conference 2023
2 October 2023
Keynote address ‘Good Practices for Comprehensive Care of Internally Displaced Persons’ in Michoacan, Mexico (in Spanish)
13 July 2023
Cross-Regional Forum on implementation of law and policy related to internal displacement
26 June 2023
Reply from the ICC Prosecutor regarding the Situation in the State of Palestine
26 April 2023
32 UN experts issue a joint letter to the ICC Prosecutor regarding the Situation in the State of Palestine and Annex
23 March 2023
Video interview on internal displacement in Türkiye at ‘On the Move’ programme (video)
5 March 2023
2022
2021
Virtual side event to the UN General Assembly on the prevention of arbitrary displacement in armed conflict and generalized violence
4 November 2021
Special Rapporteur presents report on prevention of arbitrary displacement to the UN General Assembly Third Committee
27 October 2021
Joint Statement – Humanitarians protecting people in the climate change emergency
19 August 2021
Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on Gender-Based Violence in Tigray region of Ethiopia
23 March 2021
Joint Press Statement on Honduras: UN and IACHR experts call for the immediate adoption of a law on the protection of internally displaced persons (in Spanish)
27 January 2021
2020
Prevention, Protection and Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons: GP20 Plan of Action
2018-2020
The Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons moderated the Intersessional Seminar on human rights and internally displaced persons mandated by the Human Rights Council
(Informal summary)
29 October 2020
Joint Press Statement on Ukrainian resolution on voting as a key step towards guaranteeing the rights of displaced persons
(also available in Russian | Ukrainian)
16 June 2020
Press statement on the 22nd anniversary of the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
(also available in French | Spanish)
17 April 2020
2019
Joint Statement: IACHR and the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons Welcome Decision for the protection of internally displaced persons in Mexico
17 April 2019
2018
Opinion piece on Cameroon: four priorities to strengthen protection for internally displaced persons
16 November 2018
Workshop Summary Report: 2018 Workshop on the Role of National Human Rights Institutions in Promoting and Protecting the Human Rights of IDPs
20 February 2018
2017
UN report urges Sudan to act over plight of displaced people in Darfur
21 November 2017
IACHR and UN Special Rapporteur on Internally Displaced Persons Welcome Decisions in El Salvador
(also available in Spanish)
27 October 2017