Mr. Walter K盲lin
Mr. Walter K盲lin was appointed in December 2019 as a member of the Expert Advisory Group for the United Nations Secretary General鈥檚 High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement.
Mr. K盲lin is professor emeritus for international and (Swiss) constitutional law, University of Bern/Switzerland. He is the present Envoy of the Chair of the Platform on Disaster Displacement and is the former Envoy of the Nansen Initiative on disaster-induced cross-border displacement (2012 to 2015). and acts as Special Advisor to the UN鈥檚 Resident/Humanitarian Coordinators on Somalia and Ethiopia. He also served as Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (2004 to 2010); as a member of the UN Human Rights Committee (2003 to 2008 and 2012 to 2014); and as Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Commission on the Situation of Human Rights in Kuwait under Iraqi Occupation (1991 to 1992).
Mr. K盲lin鈥檚 present research focuses on selected aspects of international human rights law, with a particular emphasis on the protection of displaced persons. His many publications include the recent book Breaking the Impasse: Reducing Protracted Internal Displacement as a Collective Outcome (2017) co-authored with Hannah Entwisle Chapuisat.