Planned Evacuations and the Right to Shelter during Displacement
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Planned Evacuations and the Right to Shelter during Displacement
Roger Zetter and Camillo Boano*
INTRODUCTION
In response to widespread destruction of the built environment and forced
displacement caused by conflict or natural disaster, the provision of durable
shelter designed to satisfactory physical standards and which is
technologically and culturally appropriate, constitutes a basic need and a
fundamental right for forced migrants. 1
This chapter examines a number of normative and policy aspects of planned
evacuation, shelter, and settlements during displacement for internally
displaced persons (IDPs) related to the provisions of the Guiding Principles on
Internal Displacement (the Guiding Principles) 2 and how they generally are,
or should be, addressed in national law and policy interventions. The chapter
focuses on conflict-related and disaster-related modes of temporary shelter
during displacement and therefore excludes development-induced
displacement.
The data are imprecise in detail but consistent in scale and the location of
impact in the global south. According to some commentators, from 1980
through the year 2000, 141 million people lost their homes in 3,559 natural
Roger Zetter is Director of Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University. Camillo
Boano is Associate Lecturer in the School of the Built Environment at Oxford
Brookes University.
1 Roger Zetter & C. Boano, Gendering Space for Forcibly Displaced Women and
Children: Concepts, Policies and Guidelines, at 4, Inter-University Committee on
International Migration for UNFPA Women and Conflict Review, Working Paper
2007 (forthcoming) (manuscript on file with Authors).
2 U.N. Econ. & Soc. Council [ECOSOC], Commn on Hum. Rts., Guiding Principles
on Internal Displacement, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4 /1998/53/Add.2 (Feb. 11, 1998)
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