On 25 October 2021, Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights hosted a discussion with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, Cecilia Jimenez-Damary, highlighting topics included in her new report due to be presented to the UN General Assembly at the end of October, and responding to questions and comments during the session. A recording of the session is now available, including the UN Special Rapporteur's response to Human Rights Research League Chairman Tom Syring's intervention (from 54:12 min. on in the video) pointing to the still lacking ratification of the AU Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention), e.g. on the part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), despite the DRC's promise made two years ago in connection with an international conference in Kinshasa (co-organized by Human Rights Research League) to move forward with the ratification process. Furthermore, the HRRL Chairman requested concerted action on behalf of the mandate holder, the UN, the AU and other relevant (state) parties to convince those AU states that have not done so yet to ratify the Kampala Convention.