Kampala Convention on IDPs, What it Means for South Sudan?

December 2018 marks the sixth Anniversary of the entry into force of the Kampala Convention, a groundbreaking treaty that obligesAfrican governments to protect the rights of people who are forced to flee their homes by armed conflict, violence, human rights violations and natural disasters.

As of December 2015, 40 of the AU’s 54 member states had signed the convention and 25 had ratified it. At the same time, implementation of the convention proceeds at a slow pace.  

Six - years after the entry into force of the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention), Edmund Yakani joins me now to explain how this human rights milestone can respond to the humanitarian crisis of internal displacement