IV.2.2.2 Durable solutions in the regional framework

Main Debates

  • Does the Central American peace process after 1984 provide a framework for creating durable solutions for refugees or is its significance limited to the particular historical and political circumstances?
  • Is the Mexico Declaration and Plan of Action a rhetorical compromise or a regional action plan?
  • Does the Brazil Declaration and Plan of Action open up new perspectives for durable solutios in Latin America and the Caribbean?

Main Points

  • Peace process and assisted voluntary repatriation of refugees
  • Historical and comparative experiences of regional approaches
  • New focuses in the Mexico and Brazil Declarations and Plans of Action and their potential impact on the progressive development of international refugee law
  • Current refugee protection challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean

Soft Law

  1. Brazil Declaration and Plan of Action: A framework for Cooperaton and Regional Solidarity to Strengthen the International Protection of Refugees, Displaced and Stateless Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean , 3 December, 2014.
  2. Mexico Declaration and Plan of Action to Strengthen the International Protection of Refugees in Latin America, 16 November, 2004.
  3. Agreement on Resettlement of the Population Groups Uprooted by the Armed Conflict, Guatemala, 17 June 1994.
  4. Principles and Criteria for the Protection of and Assistance to Central American Refugees, Returnees and Displaced Persons in Latin America, International Conference on Central American Refugees, CIREFCA, 30 May 1989, Doc. CIREFCA/89/9.
  5. Declaration and Concerted Plan of Action in Favour of Central American Refugees, Returnees and Displaced Persons, International Conference on Central American Refugees, CIREFCA, 30 May 1989, Doc. CIREFCA/89/13/Rev.1.

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Country Reports

  1. Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Haiti, 11 February 1994, (OEA/Ser.L/V/ll.85) (analysis of the situation of Haitian refugees and the situation of Haiti as country of origin).

General Assembly of the Organisation of American States

Resolutions

  1. Resolution AG/RES. 1040 (XX-O/90), 1990. The situation of refugees in Central America and the regional efforts for solving their problems.
  2. Resolution AG/RES. 1021 (XIX-O/89), 1989. Central American refugees and the International Conference on Central American refugees.

Readings

Core

  1. UNHCR, ‘The Mexico Plan of Action to Strengthen International Protection of Refugees in Latin America: Main Achievements and Challenges During the Period 2005-2010’, November, 2010.
  2. L. Franco and J. S. de Noriega, ‘Contributions of the Cartagena Process to the Development of International Refugee Law in Latin America’,in Memoir of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Cartagena Declaration on Refugees (San Jose: UNHCR, Editorana, 2004), pp. 81–88, 102–107.

Extended

  1. UNHCR, ‘Mexico Plan of Action: The Impact of Regional Solidarity 2005–2007’, (San Jose: UNHCR, 2007), pp. 16–28.

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