Resumen

SANCHEZ MOJICA, Beatriz Eugenia. When Rights are the Cage. The Rigid Transplant of Soft Law for the Management of Forced Displacement. Estud. Polit. [online]. 2009, n.35, pp.01-02. ISSN 0121-5167.

The proposal that was elaborated in the United Nations for attention to internally displaced persons has been presented as a mechanism of protection for this vulnerable group. The relief of its suffering, as well as the protection of its dignity constitute —in agreement with the proposal’s creators— the cornerstone of the system that has been prepared for their attention. Despite the official wording, the author maintains that this model does not have as a final objective the maintenance of the welfare of those who are obliged to displace, but the containment of their exodus inside the borders of the States in which they originate. The attention that the proposal offers, even the rights that it consecrates, is a mere instrument to the service of the stability and the security of the international community to which transnational massive exoduses constitute a powerful threat. Therefore the fate of those who flee is sacrificed for the sake of obtaining a higher end which the model pursues. Colombian politics has been inspired by this model, which permits us to explain its limitations toward offering integral protection to displaced persons.

Palabras clave : Internal displacement; United Nations; Constitutional Court; Protection of Displaced Persons; Integral Assistance to Displaced Persons.

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