A Framework for Resolving Displacement in Myanmar

A Framework for Resolving Displacement in Myanmar

The United Nations ‘Pinheiro Principles’ on Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons

The Pinheiro Principles are an authoritative and comprehensive statement of the specific restitution rights of refugees and displaced persons as well as the obligations of governments and other controlling authorities towards populations seeking to return to and reclaim their original homes and lands. They augment the international legal and normative framework by consolidating into one framework existing human rights and legal standards on resolving displacement through the process of restitution.

The Pinheiro Principles lay out a consolidated set of international legal principles designed to ensure that refugees and displaced persons have, in the terminology of Pinheiro Principle 2.1 “the right to have restored to them any housing, land and/or property of which they were arbitrarily or unlawfully deprived, or to be compensated for any housing, land and/or property that is factually impossible to restore as determined by an independent, impartial tribunal”. 

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