A/HRC/13/21 the work begun with Turkey, Chad and the member States of the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region (in particular the Central African Republic). 16. There may also be a need for instruments addressing new thematic areas. Compared to armed conflict situations, there are relatively few binding norms that apply to disasters and displacement. The work of the International Law Commission (ILC) on the protection of persons in the event of disasters, to which the Representative has been able to provide input, is instructive.6 The Representative, working within the framework of the IASC, has further concluded that present international law fails to protect people who have no other choice but to leave their country as a result of disasters (e.g. because rising sea levels flood an entire island State as a consequence of climate change).7 B. Mainstreaming the human rights of the internally displaced 17. The mainstreaming aspect of the mandate has been an essential part of the Representative’s work. Throughout his tenure the Representative has been a standing invitee to the IASC, a forum for coordination, policy development and decision-making in the humanitarian area. He regularly participates at the IASC principals’ level, while support staff engage at other levels, including in the global clusters on protection and early recovery. The participation in the IASC is crucial to promoting the human rights of internally displaced persons within the humanitarian community and to ensuring that humanitarian actors take into account concerns specific to displacement. The Representative is encouraged by the request of the General Assembly that he continue his work in the IASC8 and hopes that his successor will enjoy the same level of access, including at the principals’ level. 18. Within the IASC, the Representative has developed two important policy documents, the Framework for Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons (A/HRC/13/21/Add.4) and the Operational Guidelines on Human Rights and Natural Disasters (A/HRC/4/38/Add.1, currently under revision based on the results of field testing). The endorsement of these documents by the IASC has significantly contributed to their application by humanitarian actors. 19. The Representative has helped to trigger and shape the IASC analysis of the humanitarian implications of climate change, which resulted in shared terminology on different affected populations and a common understanding of the normative frameworks for their protection and the legal and institutional gaps. This work culminated in joint advocacy efforts on the humanitarian implications of climate change in the negotiations on a United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. 20. The Representative continued to engage with the World Bank and contributed to the development of its new three-year work programme on forced displacement. 21. In taking up the request of the Human Rights Council to promote the human rights and specific protection and assistance needs of internally displaced persons in peace processes, peace agreements and reintegration and rehabilitation processes (see resolution 6 7 8 6 See the second report of the ILC Special Rapporteur on the subject, Mr. Eduardo Valencia-Ospina, A/CN.4/615 See working paper on “Climate change, migration and displacement: Who will be affected?” submitted by the informal group on Migration/Displacement and Climate Change of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), 31 October 2008 to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, available at http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2008/smsn/igo/022.pdf. See General Assembly resolution 64/162, para. 17. GE.10-10161