A/HRC/41/40/Add.1
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
12 June 2019
English only
Human Rights Council
Forty-first session
24 June–12 July 2019
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Global and national activities under the twentieth
anniversary of the Guiding Principles on Internal
Displacement
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally
displaced persons*
Summary
The present addendum, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution
32/11, provides an overview of the activities envisaged and so far undertaken under the
“GP20” multi-stakeholder initiative convened by the Special Rapporteur in 2017 to
commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement in
2018. The addendum contains the Plan of Action for Advancing Prevention, Protection and
Solutions for Internally Displaced People (2018-2020) which was spearheaded by the
mandate of the Special Rapporteur, UNHCR and OCHA and participated in by stakeholders
including a Steering Group. It also provides an overview of global and national level
activities implemented in accordance with this Plan of Action by State actors, UN agencies,
civil society and others.
The thematic priorities for GP20 were determined at a stakeholder meeting convened
in September 2017 in Geneva by the Special Rapporteur. A GP20 Plan of Action 1 was
developed around four priority areas (participation of IDPs; national laws and policies
addressing internal displacement; data and analysis on internal displacement; and addressing
protracted displacement and facilitating durable solutions) through consultations with UN
Member States, UN entities, NGOs, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
and key experts on internal displacement. The Plan of Action was launched on 17 April 2018
in Geneva at a meeting convened by the Special Rapporteur and hosted by Austria, Honduras
and Uganda. A Communications Working Group was likewise established to support the
Plan of Action. In May 2018, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Principals
endorsed the GP20 Plan of Action at a session in New York devoted to internal displacement
* The present document is being issued without formal editing.
1
http://www.globalprotectioncluster.org/gp20/gp20-plan-of-action/.
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