50 Years On: What Future for International Refugee Protection?

Industrialized States: The Beginning and the End of Refugee Protection?

The Global Picture

Attacks on Humanitarian Workers Threaten Refugee Protection

Protecting Refugee Women and Children

Protracted Refugee Crises: The Right to Return

The Challenge of the New Millennium: Protecting the Internally Displaced

The Way Forward

Relevant Human Rights Watch reports

As the world marked the fiftieth anniversary of an international regime to protect the rights of refugees, the largest group of forcibly displaced persons worldwide--the internally displaced--remained largely excluded from any consistent form of international protection and their rights were persistently violated. Protecting the rights of internally displaced persons, while at the same time preserving and strengthening the right to asylum for refugees, were the two critical challenges facing the international community at the end of 2000.