This week On the Move, Begüm Başdaş talked with Paula Gaviria, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of IDPs about the obligations of national authorities and international community to protect the rights of internally displaced people in the aftermath of the earthquakes in Türkiye.
Ms. Paula Gaviria Betancur is a human rights lawyer and a forced displacement expert and she was appointed Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons by the Human Rights Council in September 2022 and assumed the mandate on 1 November 2022. She currently serves as executive director of Compaz, a non-profit founded by Nobel Laureate Juan Manuel Santos. With over two decades of experience in human rights and humanitarian affairs, she was a member of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement, which worked from 2019 to 2021 to identify concrete recommendations on how to better prevent, respond and achieve solutions to the global internal displacement crisis. She has been an advocate for durable solutions to internal displacement and particularly for the role of the private sector in breaking the displacement cycle.
