Derived from Article 13 are the rights of internally displaced people, which are elaborated more fully in the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement. They prohibit arbitrary displacement, and say that internally displaced people (IDPs) “have the right to move freely in and out of camps or other settlements,” a principle that was not respected, for example, in the closed IDP camps for Rohingya in Myanmar’s Rakhine State.
Join ROCLA & LASC for Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence and the Roots of Migration – a discussion with Aviva Chomsky. Join ROCLA’s mailing list here to be sent the Zoom details.
Aviva Chomsky has published numerous books on Latin American history, labor and migration, co-edited several anthologies, and has been active in Latin American solidarity and immigrants’ rights movements for several decades. Her most recent works include Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration (2021); and Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal (2014; Mexican edition, 2014).
Her next book, “Is Science Enough? Forty Critical Questions about Climate Justice” is due out in 2022.