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Beyond Relocation: The Imperative of Sustainable Resettlement emphasizes the need for reforming laws and policies dealing with displacement and resettlement on a global as well as local level. The issues of risks, impoverishment, entitlements and survival strategies of those displaced are discussed in this book from a gendered perspective.
Development and Displacement: Rights-Based Theoretical Analysis
Development and Displacement: Rights-Based Theoretical Analysis
The relationship between development and displacement is an ironical one. The process of development meant to enrich the lives of many human beings ends up depriving an unfortunate few by uprooting them from their traditional homeland and way of life and denying to them their basic rights of livelihood. When development-induced-displaced persons bear the burden of development, they do so at the cost of their own human rights and social justice. This chapter seeks to reassert the protection of the rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and what needs to be addressed today is the ‘right to development’ (RTD), in which all their fundamental rights and freedoms are realised.
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