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Developing national law, policy and strategies around the African Union convention for the protection and assistance of internally displaced persons in Africa Forced Migration Online (24276783) Migration, asylum and refugee law FORCED MIGRATION ONLINE UNHCR UN CHARTER HUMAN RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW ARMED CONFLICT SOCIAL SECURITY INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS REFUGEES The adoption of The African Union Convention on the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa on 23 October 2009 marks a major development of the international normative framework for IDP protection. The challenge now is to secure the Convention's ratification and, of course, implementation. This paper, prepared at the invitation of the AU just prior to the adoption of the Convention, focuses on the importance of implementing the Convention through domestic national legislation and policy. Indeed, the Convention spells out the responsibility of States to do so. 2026-09-30T11:43:20Z Text Online resource 10.25446/oxford.33352056.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/Developing_national_law_policy_and_strategies_around_the_African_Union_convention_for_the_protection_and_assistance_of_internally_displaced_persons_in_Africa/33352056 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0