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	OCHA-Online - Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
		Certain internally displaced persons, such as children, especially unaccompanied minors, expectant mothers, mothers with young children, female heads of household, persons with disabilities and elderly persons, shall be entitled to protection and assistance required by their condition and to treatment which takes into account their special needs.
		Internally displaced persons shall be protected against discriminatory practices of recruitment into any armed forces or groups as a result of their displacement.
		Internally displaced persons who have returned to their homes or places of habitual residence or who have resettled in another part of the country shall not be discriminated against as a result of their having been displaced.
	www.reliefweb.int /ocha_ol/pub/idp_gp/idp.html (3530 words)

	Internally displaced persons
		The emphasis in the mandate was and remains to establish a better understanding of the general problems faced by internally displaced persons and their possible long-term solutions including, where required, recommendations on the ways and means of improving protection.
		The report notes that the fact that the internally displaced have not crossed a border and, moreover, most often are found in situations of armed conflict, poses additional challenges to international efforts to meet these needs.
		The Representative stated that addressing the problem of internal displacement therefore is as much an imperative of regional and international peace and security as it is a matter of responding to the needs of the individuals affected for humanitarian assistance and human rights protection.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord1998/vol1/displaced.htm (1369 words)

	Representative of the Secretary-General on internally displaced persons -questions and answers-
		More often than refugees, the internally displaced tend to remain close to or become trapped in zones of conflict, caught in the cross-fire and at risk of being used as pawns, targets or human shields by the belligerents.
		Persons forcibly displaced from their homes who cannot or choose not to cross a border, therefore, are not considered refugees, even if they share many of the same circumstances and challenges as those who do.
		As a crucial element of sovereignty, it is the Governments of the states where internally displaced persons are found that have the primary responsibility for their assistance and protection.
	www.ohchr.org /english/issues/idp/issues.htm (525 words)

	Features- Internally Displaced People
		Mass population displacement owing to various reasons force the affected population to become potential refugees leaving them stranded within their own country without recognition and care.
		The plights of the internally displaced people are similar to those circumstances that created refugees.
		Internally displaced people are those people who are forced to abandon their homes by similar circumstances that force a refugee to flee.
	www.manipuronline.com /Features/March2002/displacedpeople01_1.htm (791 words)

	Choike - Internally Displaced Persons
		The Project on Internal Displacement was created to promote a more effective national, regional and international response to the issue globally and to support the work of the Representative of the UN Secretary-General in carrying out the responsibilities of his mandate.
		Internally displaced Palestinians inside Israel are one of the unlucky categories of the Palestinian refugees as far as registration of status is concerned.
		Displaced communities in Colombia are fleeing their original land only to encounter more intimidation, lack of running water and food and schooling fees that parents cannot afford to pay.
	www.choike.org /nuevo_eng/informes/4352.html (1899 words)

	Protecting the Internally Displaced Under InternationalHumanitarian Law
		In addition, governments who create situations resulting in internal displacement, or who are not sympathetic to the plight of the displaced for ethnic, religious, or political reasons, generally are unwilling provide displaced persons with rights found in international human rights instruments.
		International law currently applicable to internally displaced persons is a patchwork of standards, with parts applying to all persons, parts applying only to certain subgroups of displaced persons, such as those displaced as a result of armed conflict, and parts that may be suspended at various times.
		This representative is to seek views and information on human rights issues related to the internally displaced, to examine current human rights law mechanisms and the applicability of humanitarian and refugee law, and to evaluate the standards of protection and provision of relief assistance for the internally displaced.
	www.wcl.american.edu /hrbrief/v2i2/protecting.htm (903 words)

	PROTECTING INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN KOSOVO
		Very often internal displacement occurs in situations where the government either is unable or unwilling to provide protection and assistance, or, as in the case of Kosovo, government policy and actions in fact create displacement.
		It noted that "in many instances, the internally displaced are present alongside refugees, returnees, or a vulnerable local population, in situations where it is neither reasonable nor feasible to treat the categories differently in responding to their needs for assistance and protection." EXCOM Conclusion No. 75 (XLV) 1994, paragraph (m).
		However, this author is of the opinion that intervening on behalf of the internally displaced for their protection is an integral part of a humanitarian mandate, and is therefore not to be seen as a political act.
	web.mit.edu /cis/www/migration/pubs/rrwp/3_protectIDPs.html (12481 words)

	New Challenges for Refugee Policy: Internally Displaced Persons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ten of the African countries with significant internally displaced populations are among the thirty poorest countries in the world.
		Internal displacement is not only a human rights and humanitarian issue but a political and security one.
		Internal displacement, after all, is but a symptom of a far deeper problem within a society.
	www.brookings.edu /views/speeches/cohenr/19990401.htm (2701 words)

	Report on Internally Displaced Persons in South Asia
		Often the victims of forced displacement are unable to cross borders due to severe lack of resources and are forced to live within a regime that had created occasions for their displacement in the first place.
		Internal displacement has become one of the chief concerns of the administrators, policy-making circles, and humanitarian agencies.
		There is a long history of internal displacement in the country, yet this issue remained insignificant in terms of research and legislation.
	www.mcrg.ac.in /idp.htm (4159 words)

	The National Committee for the Rights of the Internally Displaced Palestinians in Israel
		While accurate statistics are not available, the current number of internally displaced is estimated to be 250,000 (in the early 1980s, Professor Samouha estimated their number to be 150,000), living in around 80 villages and towns.
		Despite the national, historic, and geographic ties between the Palestinian people and the internally displaced, we must highlight the uniqueness of the internally displaced who remained in their homeland, a special situation which is shared by all the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel.
		Internally displaced live in a special context, in a historical period in which everybody sings the slogan of the implementation of international law.
	www.badil.org /Publications/Press/2000/manifesto.html (3013 words)

	Foreign Policy Association: Resource Library: Global Q&A: Internally Displaced Persons - The New Global Crisis
		Internally displaced persons are forcibly displaced within their own countries.
		Internally displaced persons are considered among the world's most desperate populations at risk.
		These are 30 principles, and they set forth the rights of the internally displaced, and the obligations of governments and insurgent groups towards these populations, and they cover protection from displacement, during displacement and reintegration, and they are based on existing international human rights laws, humanitarian law, and refugee law by analogy.
	www.fpa.org /topics_info2414/topics_info_show.htm?doc_id=96396 (2973 words)

	afrol News: Internally displaced by far outnumber refugees in Africa
		The magnitude of internal displacement in Africa reflects an increase in armed conflicts since the beginning of the 1990s.
		The NRC has, over the past four years, observed a pattern of civilians becoming displaced because armed groups are deliberately targeting them, either to loot villages for supplies, or in many cases to forcibly conscript people as fighters or effective slaves, exploiting them both physically and sexually.
		According to the council, displaced persons are often less likely than refugees to find shelter in organised camps or protected areas, forcing them to seek refuge in host communities already exhausted by the effects of war, or to hide in the bush with little or no access to humanitarian assistance.
	www.afrol.com /News2002/afr004_idp_stats.htm (644 words)

	American Chronicle: Internally displaced Nepalis must be protected
		Internally displaced Nepalis across the country have been deprived of proper treatment as the government as well as NGOs have failed to address to their urgent humanitarian needs.
		Internally displaced Nepalese are facing food insecurity, lack of water, and an almost total lack of government’s protection.
		Internally displaced persons must have access to medical care, schooling to their children and the right to work.
	www.americanchronicle.com /articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=9513 (767 words)

	Internally Displaced Persons
		To that end, at the 1998 session of the Commission, the Representative presented the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement which are aimed at addressing the specific needs of internally displaced persons by identifying rights and guarantees relevant to their protection.
		The report notes that the problem of internal displacement remains one of the most pressing challenges facing the international community, with some 20 to 25 million persons in at least 40 countries worldwide being internally displaced.
		The report states that providing an effective and comprehensive system of response to the needs of internally displaced populations around the world remains a daunting task that calls for a concerted effort by all concerned at all levels, local to global.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord1999/vol1/displaced.htm (396 words)

	ACT - Colombia-displaced (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A child, whose family was internally displaced in Colombia, today lives in a settlement of displaced families outside Neiva, in the Colombian province of Huila.
		A woman, whose family was internally displaced in Colombia, earns money weaving at her home in a settlement of displaced families outside Neiva, in the Colombian province of Huila.
		A woman who was internally displaced by violence in Colombia in front of her home in Cazuca, a burgeoning poor neighborhood south of Santa Fe de Bogotá, the country's capital.
	www.gbgm-umc.org /honduras/images/act_-_colombia-displaced.htm (1448 words)

	Brenda McGadney-Douglass's study of internally displaced women in Ghana, Africa.
		The extent of damage from the conflicts leaving population displacement is devastating causing serious threat to regional peace and security, social and economic development, and the community, especially women and children.
		The outcome of this war was tremendous internal displacement, and loss of life, property, and social and economic development.
		The internally displaced women from the Dagombas and the Nanumbas (the majority group) had similar stories of terror and woe, however they lacked the understanding of the necessity of the conflict.
	research.utoledo.edu /Africa.htm (2238 words)

	The KHRW Internally Displaced Refugees (IDPs)
		The regime said that the expulsions, mostly to Wasit governorate in the east, Dhi Qar in the south, and Qadisiyah in the center, were intended to return internally displaced persons to their areas of origin and to relieve congestion in Baghdad.
		At least 100,000 of the displaced in the north are people from the government-controlled regions of Kirkuk, Khanaqin, and Sinjar bordering the north who have been expelled into the north in recent years, including 1999.
		Those displaced in northern Iraq also include people previously displaced from government-controlled Iraq; about half of the displaced were forced out before 1991, many during the "Anfal" campaign in the late 1980s when Baghdad forces wiped out about 4,500 Kurdish villages, including virtually all villages near the borders of Turkey and Iran.
	www.khrw.com /erbil/idp.html (1202 words)

	Migration Information Source - The Internally Displaced in Perspective
		Although the mass displacement of people within their own countries is nothing new, several developments have helped push the IDP issue into the spotlight in recent years.
		For many years, international efforts to assist the internally displaced have been handicapped by two factors: the lack of a clear definition as to what constitutes "internal displacement" and the absence of responsibility vested in any one international institution to provide for the needs of the displaced.
		The effect has been to reaffirm the key principle of non-discrimination in the treatment of the internally displaced, and to lay out a spectrum of standards relating to protection from displacement, protection during displacement, as well as principles relating to return, resettlement and reintegration.
	www.migrationinformation.org /Feature/display.cfm?ID=9 (1649 words)

	Displaced person - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A displaced person (sometimes abbreviated DP) is a person who has been forced to leave his or her native place, a phenomenon known as forced migration.
		The term "refugee" is also commonly used as a synonym for displaced person, causing confusion between the general descriptive class of anyone who has left their home and the subgroup of legally defined refugees who enjoy specified international legal protection.
		The forced displacement of a number of refugees or internally displaced persons according to an identifiable policy is an example of population transfer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Displaced_person (529 words)

	Los Angeles Chronicle: Internally displaced People Seek Peace
		Internally displaced Nepali across the country have been deprived of proper treatment as the government as well as NGOs failed to implement the program.
		Internally displaced Nepalese are facing food insecurity, lack of water.
		Under the Refugee Convention, Internally displaced refugees must be guaranteed certain basic human rights the right not to be tortured, the right to security of person, and the right to employment and health.
	www.losangeleschronicle.com /articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=8110 (836 words)

	WHRnet Issue - Refugees and Internally Displaced
		Wars, internal armed conflicts, and state-sponsored persecution of marginalized groups and minorities generate the world’s most destitute populations -- refugees and the internally displaced people (IDP) -- people whose lives are characterized by poverty, insecurity and dim hope of self-sufficiency.
		In times of displacement and hunger, women carry the burden of searching for food and other means for their family or children’s survival.
		As a response to the particularly difficult situation of the internally displaced and to contribute to their safety, the UNHCR issued its Guiding Principles on the Internally Displaced, which affirmed the human rights of IDPs and called on states and international actors to promote and protect these rights, and extend assistance.
	www.whrnet.org /docs/issue-refugees.html (3532 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Reports on Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and Asylum Seekers
		This 61-page report documents the government’s denial of assistance and protection to people internally displaced as a result of Operation Murambatsvina (“Clear the Filth”), which began in May. The report also examines the role of international agencies, and in particular the United Nations country team, in addressing the humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe.
		This 82-page report documents the increasing frustration of thousands of displaced Kurds, as well as Turkomans and Assyrians, who are living in desperate conditions as they await a resolution of their property claims.
		The report urges the Angolan government and international agencies to ensure reasonably uniform conditions in the areas to which the internally displaced, refugees, and former combatants will return, and to pay special attention to the needs of women, children and other vulnerable groups.
	hrw.org /doc/?t=refugees_pub (1866 words)

	Refugee and Internally Displaced Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Between seventy-five and eighty percent of the world's 50 millions refugees and internally displaced persons are women and their dependent children.
		For one, the number of refugees and internally displaced persons is rapidly growing and has been outstripping the international community's capacity to provide adequate assistance.
		This paper examines the actual experience of refugee and displaced women in light of the need for their greater integration into development-oriented programs for refugees, displaced persons and returnees.
	www.brookings.edu /fp/projects/idp/refugee_idp_women.htm (352 words)

	ang002 Increasing insecurity for internally displaced
		Most of the displaced are seeking refuge in town centers due to increased insecurity in rural areas.
		This represents a 10-fold increase in the numbers of internally displaced who had been arriving in recent months.
		MSF is concerned that if WFP general food distributions are dramatically reduced, internally displaced may have no choice but to venture out of the town centers in search of food, jeopardizing their safety.
	www.afrol.com /News/ang002_internally_displaced.htm (635 words)

	UNHCR - Protecting Refugees
		If a person in similar circumstances is displaced within his or her home country and becomes internally displaced person then assistance and protection is much more problematic.
		UNHCR currently helps over 5.6 million of those internally displaced, and a lively international debate is underway on how to more effectively help this group.
		Addressing the specific needs of internally displaced persons worldwide by identifying rights and guarantees relevant to their protection (pdf, 1.1Mb).
	www.unhcr.org /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/protect?id=3b84c7e23 (471 words)

	Rights of the Internally Displaced (IDPs)
		In every region of the world, internally displaced persons (IDPs) -- those uprooted from their homes by conflict, human rights violations, natural disasters and other comparable causes who remain within the borders of their own countries -- are subject to human rights violations, both during and after displacement.
		Frequently, they are discriminated against for being displaced and exposed to discrimination on racial, ethnic and gender grounds.
		This newly released Guide to International Human Rights Mechanisms for Internally Displaced Persons and their Advocates is designed to assist IDPs in using international and regional human rights mechanisms to bring attention to their plight and where possible to secure redress.
	sangam.org /taraki/articles/2006/09-27_Rights_IDPs.php?uid=1973 (2062 words)

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