Beyani, Chaloka
Dr Chaloka Beyani
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Non LSE positions held
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Position held
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United Nations
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United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons
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Experience keywords:
mercenaries; migration; climate change; displaced persons; migrants; state authority; treaty-making; human rights; constitutional reform; humanitarian assistance; public international law; maritime disputes; displacement of populations; democracy; refugees; gender relations; human trafficking; territorial disputes; state responsibility
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Dr Chaloka Beyani is a recognized international and United Nations expert on internally displaced persons, population transfers, mercenaries and private military companies, sexual and reproductive health, the human rights based approach to development, climate change, making treaties, and making constitutions. He has served as a legal advisor and expert to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office of the High Commissioner on Refugees, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Population Fund, United Nations Development Fund for Women, the European Union, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the African Union. He is also the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons.
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Sectors and industries to which research relates:
Law
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Countries and regions to which research relates:
Africa; Great Lakes region; Zambia; Moldova
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Languages: Nyanja [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; Tonga [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]
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Media experience:
Radio; TV
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LSE Research Online, Funnelback Search
Beyani, Chaloka
(2013)
Protection of the right to seek and obtain asylum under the African human rights system
Refugees and human rights, 12. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden. ISBN 9789004163416
Beyani, Chaloka
(2007)
Recent developments in the African human rights system 2004-2006
Human Rights Law Review, 7 (3). 582-608. ISSN 1461-7781
Beyani, Chaloka
(2006)
The role of human rights bodies in protecting refugees
In:
Bayefsky, Anne F., (ed.)
Human Rights and Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and Migrant Workers. Refugees and human rights (10). Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Netherlands, 269-281. ISBN 9789004144835
Beyani, Chaloka
(2006)
Recent developments: the elaboration of a legal framework for the protection of internally displaced persons in Africa
Journal of African Law, 50 (2). 187-197. ISSN 0221-8553
Beyani, Chaloka
(2003)
International law and the war on terror
In:
Macrae, Joanna and
Harmer, Adele, (eds.)
Humanitarian Action and the ‘Global War on Terror’: a Review of Trends and Issues. Humanitarian policy group reports (14). Overseas Development Institute, London, UK, 13-23. ISBN 0850036720
Beyani, Chaloka and
Fitzpatrick, Joan and
Kalin, Walter
(2000)
Introduction - the editorial group
International Journal of Refugee Law, 12 (supp.1). 1-8. ISSN 0953-8186
Beyani, Chaloka
(2000)
International legal criteria for the separation of members of armed forces, armed bands and militia from refugees in the territories of host states
International Journal of Refugee Law, 12 (Specia). 251-271. ISSN 0953-8186
Beyani, Chaloka and
Fitzpatrick, Joan and
Kalin, Walter and
Zard, Monette (eds.)
(2000)
Exclusion from protection (special supplementary issue)
International Journal of Refugee Law, 12 (supp.1). 1-347. ISSN 0953-8186
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This commentary provides a valuable insight into the use of human rights in the protection of refugees through the prism of the African Human Rights System.
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Dr Beyani joined the Department of Law at LSE in 1996 and lectures in international law and human rights. He was formerly a Research Fellow at Wolfson college, Oxford, with Lectureships in Law at Exeter and St. Catherine's colleges, Oxford, and a Crown Prince of Jordan Fellow, Queen Elizabeth House, as part of the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford.
He studied law at the University of Oxford (D.Phil) and at the University of Zambia (UNZA)(LLB, LLM). He has taught international law, human rights, public law, and criminal law at Oxford and UNZA. He is Visiting Professor of International Law at the University of Toronto and Santa Clara University.
Dr Beyani was a member of the High Level Panel of Eminent Persons of the African Union on the Formation of an African Union Government. He has served as an expert to the African Union on the issue of universal jurisdiction and was a member of the joint African Union and European Union ad hoc Expert Group on Universal Jurisdiction. He is currently a member of the UK Foreign Secretary's Advisory Group on Human Rights.
He has practical legal and political experience in making national constitutions. He was a member of the official Committee of Experts on Constitutional Review of the Republic of Kenya, the Committee that drafted and prepared the Constitution of Kenya, which was adopted by referendum in 2010. He also has practical legal and diplomatic experience in treaty making, having drafted and negotiated the adoption of the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons 2009. He also drafted and negotiated the adoption of 11 peace treaties under the framework of the Pact on Peace, Stability and Development of the Great Lakes Region 2006.
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