III.3.4.1 Regional

Main Debates

  • Are East African states meeting their obligations under the human rights and refugee law instruments they have ratified at the continental and sub-regional levels?
  • What are the roles of Eastern African states in the protection of refugees?

Main Points

  • Distinctive and similar features of the East African states
  • Emergence of national refugee-specific legislation for the protection of refugees
  • Development of IDPs policy frameworks

Treaties

  1. OAU, Resolution on Guidelines and Measures for the Prohibition and Prevention of Torture, Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in Africa (Robben Island Guidelines), 2008.
  2. Regional Parliamentarian Meeting, Kinshasa Declaration, 26–28 February 2007.
  3. International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, Protocol on the Property Rights of Returning Persons, 30 November 2006.
  4. International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, Protocol on the Prevention and Suppression of Sexual Violence against Women and Children, 30 November 2006.
  5. International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, Protocol on the Protection and Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons, 30 November 2006.
  6. International Conference for Peace, Security, Democracy and Development in the Great Lakes Region, Dar-es-Salaam Declaration on Peace, Security, Democracy and Development in the Great Lakes Region, 19–20 November 2004.

Readings

Core

  1. UNHCR, ‘Regional Conferences on Refugee Protection and International Migration in Central America, Western Africa, Eastern Africa and Asia - Selected Conference Materials’, June 2011, pp. 84-116.

Extended

  1. K. K. Kamanga, ‘International Refugees Law in East Africa: An Evolving Regime’, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, vol. 3 (Winter/Spring 2002), pp. 25–35.
  2. K. K. Kamanga, ‘Refugee Presence: Impact on the Environment and Economic Development’, The African, 10 July 2004, p. 10.
  3. K. K. Kamanga, ‘Impact of Refugee Presence on Internal and Regional Security’, The African, 12 July 2004, p. 10.
  4. G. Loescher and J. Milner, Protracted Refugee Situations: Domestic and International Security Implications, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 35-50.