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	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)

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		IDP (Internally Dispalced Persons) working definition is recent, considering that the issue of Internally Dispalced Persons was linked before to that of Refugees.
		By making location the essence of the IDP definition, and not the right to be protected, it did not offer the restoration of one's rights in another location as a durable solution for internally displaced people.
		Unlike the term "refugee", which denotes a legal status delineating a particular subset of externally displaced persons, persons forced to leave their homes because of earthquakes or dam projects are, indeed, descriptively "internally displaced persons" whether or not their reasons for flight are similar to those of refugees.
	www.lnf.org.lb /migrationnetwork/definitionofidp.html (414 words)

	Human Rights Monitor No 25
		It refers to a person who flees his or her country due a well-founded fear of threatened or ongoing violence or persecution on grounds of race, religion, membership of a particular social group or their political opinion.
		As a result, internally displaced people are more vulnerable than their refugee counterparts because of this lack of international and local protection and assistance.
		When people are displaced inside their own country, there is usually, as is the case in Zimbabwe, no urgent effort by humanitarian or relief groups to provide shelter or source and distribute food for the affected persons.
	www.hrforumzim.com /monitor/hrm_25.htm (1760 words)

	Internally displaced person - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There is no legal definition of IDP, as there is for refugee [1], but the rule of thumb is that if the person in question would be eligible for refugee status if he or she crossed an international border then the IDP label is applicable.
		IDPs are not technically refugees because they have not crossed an international border, but are sometimes casually referred to as refugees.
		Internally displaced persons do not have a specific international legal instrument that applies to them as do refugees, because any attempt by an outside body to tell a nation how it should treat its own citizens has been seen as a violation of the principle of national sovereignty and self-determination.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Internally_displaced_person (610 words)

	Equipo Nizkor - UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.
		Internally displaced persons shall enjoy, in full equality, the same rights and freedoms under international and domestic law as do other persons in their country. They shall not be discriminated against in the enjoyment of any rights and freedoms on the ground that they are internally displaced.
		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. In particular any cruel, inhuman or degrading practices that compel compliance or punish non-compliance with recruitment are prohibited in all circumstances.
	www.derechos.org /nizkor/excep/displaced.html (2358 words)

	PROTECTING INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN KOSOVO
		These persons fall under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the state within which they remain, complemented by general international human rights law and international humanitarian law, the latter in cases of an armed conflict, be it an international or internal one.
		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.
		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)

	Internally displaced person (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Tailor in Labuje IDP camp in [[Uganda]] An internally displaced person (IDP) is someone who has been forced to leave their home for reasons such as religious or political persecution or war, but has not crossed an international border.
		There is no legal definition of IDP, as There is for refugee, but the thumbnail rule is that if the person in question would be eligible for refugee status if he or she crossed an international border then the IDP label is applicable.
		Internally displaced persons do not have a specific international legal instrument that applies to them as do refugees, because any attempt by an outside body to tell a nation how it should treat its own citizens has been seen as a violation of the principle of national sovereignty.
	internally-displaced-person.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (477 words)

	Displaced person - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A displaced person (sometimes abbreviated DP) is 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 (523 words)

	Refugees have rights - Questions & Answers - Amnesty International
		An asylum-seeker is a person who is seeking protection as a refugee even though she may not have been formally recognised as one.
		An internally displaced person is a person who has had to flee one part of a country to another.
		And numbers of internally displaced persons are currently estimated to be around 25.8 million, 0.4% of the world’s population.
	web.amnesty.org /pages/refugees-background-eng (1174 words)

	Sri Lanka: Waiting to go home - the plight of the internally displaced
		Displaced people, being dislocated from normal social and community support structures, are particularly vulnerable to conflict-related insecurity, which not only threatens their lives, but also their prospects for durable solutions and a return to normal life with full protection of their human rights.
		Many IDP women reported that they feel uncomfortable sharing small huts with male members of their extended family and that they lack privacy for bathing and have to walk a distance from their homes to go to the toilet at night.
		According to agencies working with IDPs, one of the major reasons why conflict-displaced people are unable to return, or their attempts at return or resettlement fail causing them to be displaced again, is the fact that they cannot maintain an adequate standard of living in the areas of return or resettlement.
	www.amnestyusa.org /news/document.do?id=ENGASA370042006 (19784 words)

	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.
		Refugee and IDPs populations generally have no access to schools, employment opportunities, or a source of livelihood; They live unstable and insecure lives, are constantly threatened by the violence around them, and are trapped in the cycle of dependence on diminishing humanitarian aid.
		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 /i/node/86/print (3526 words)

	About HRI
		The internally displaced, and particularly large numbers of women and children, are found in camps and public buildings, often in conditions of deprivation and largely dependent upon outside assistance to meet their basic needs.
		For example: most of the agricultural workers among the displaced live in urban areas and most of the internally displaced persons originating from mountainous regions did not settle in the north and south-east areas of the country, where the climatic conditions most closely resemble their previous environment.
		The law also affirms that the persons to which it applies shall have the same rights, freedoms and duties of all citizens of Azerbaijan and are entitled to apply to the relevant government bodies and to judicial bodies in defence of their rights.
	www.hri.ca /uninfo/unchr99/report9.shtml (9666 words)

	Resolutions and Related Reports: Sudan, Sudan: Monthly report of the Secretary-General on Darfur
		On 20 July, the rumours apparently prompted an angry crowd of internally displaced persons to beat to death three employees of the government Department for Water and Environmental Sanitation in Hassa Hissa camp near Zalingei.
		Internally displaced persons have challenged and threatened vaccination and sanitation workers in camps across Darfur.
		Militia forces continued to attack female internally displaced persons when they left the confines of their camps to undertake income-generating activities, such as gathering grass, fruit and firewood.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/SODA-6UB4RX?OpenDocument (5225 words)

	Sidebars: People Who Move: New Focus for Reproductive Health Care, Series J, Number 45
		Migrants, refugees, and internally displaced persons are alike in that they are moving or have moved, whether permanently or temporarily, to a new place.
		To distinguish among types of migrants, the term "migrant" is usually restricted to those who move voluntary (internally or internationally), and the terms "refugee" and "internally displaced person" are used to describe those who move involuntarily—"refugee" if the move is across national borders and "internally displaced person" if not.
		Internally displaced persons are often in an even more precarious legal position because no body of law protects them.
	www.infoforhealth.org /pr/J45/j45boxes.shtml (2624 words)

	Swelling numbers of internally displaced people
		But the internal displaced people situation in Zimbabwe differs in that while a significant proportion of farm workers have been able to remain on the farms, an increasing number have lost their ability to sustain themselves, the assessment notes.
		Tony Rinker of Amani Trust says: "Because the displaced fear repression and further violence, they seek to remain 'underground', which makes their enumeration and location very tenuous." Consequently, their numbers are variously estimated among the NGO and human rights community at anywhere from 200 000 to 400 000.
		One of the factors hampering assistance to those in need is that a large number of internally displaced people are in areas of the country where the UN has never had any need for a presence, namely in the large-scale commercial farming areas.
	www.newsfromafrica.org /newsfromafrica/articles/art_573.html (1092 words)

	World Affairs Council
		There are around 100,000 internally displaced people (those who flee from one part of the country to another), most re-locating for government reasons.
		Internal migration is limited, and any woman found outside her resident town without proper documents can be taken into prison.
		Internally, the struggle for power within Haiti was vicious, as the tense relations between fls and mulattos deteriorated.
	www.world-affairs.org /globalclassroom/awards/essay/winners2004.html (8265 words)

	MSF-USA: Field News 06/27/2005 - Displaced Colombians Struggle to Survive in Urban Slums
		According to independent estimates, there were three million internally displaced people throughout Colombia in 2004 and at least 17,500 of them lived in Soacha.
		Despite their poor living conditions, no access to health care, and little employment, most of the internally displaced people choose to endure impoverishment rather than risk the danger of returning to their homes.
		In order for an internally displaced person to qualify for benefits the government requires the confirmation of a person's identity both with the municipality of current residence and with the area from which they have fled.
	www.doctorswithoutborders.org /news/2005/06-27-2005.cfm (1464 words)

	Grant: AZE 35463-01 \| Integration of IDPs in Mingechevir Rayon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The purpose of the JFPR project is to pilot forms of sustainably integrating IDPs into the mainstream of society, thereby improving the quality of life and economic opportunities for them, and for non-IDPs within the same community, and reducing social conflicts.
		The components are (i) shelter upgrading and services for IDPs; (ii) rehabilitation of schools and other social facilities through community-based initiatives involving both IDPs and non-IDPs (iii) support to livelihood improvement through provision of microfinance and other enterprise support; (iv) strengthening institutional supports for community renewal and regeneration; and (v) project management and impact assessment.
		IDPs will also receive direct employment opportunities through the Project, and some 600 households will receive microfinance in the initial round of financing under the Project.
	www.adb.org /Documents/Profiles/GRNT/35463012.ASP (666 words)

	IDMC : Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
		Forced displacement in Colombia is primarily a way to seize agricultural land from peasants and small farmers, and only to a lesser degree the unintended consequence of fighting between warring parties.
		Displaced by the Wall: Forced displacement as a Result of the West Bank Wall and its Associated Regime (September 2006)
		Internal displacement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, IDMC (October 2006)
	www.idpproject.org (324 words)

	CWS Africa Initiative - Displaced Persons
		Whether uprooted within their own country or fleeing across borders, displaced people are often seen as contrary to development, an unwanted reminder of international community failure.
		In Africa, roughly one out of every 55 people is a refugee, an internally displaced person, an asylum seeker, or a stateless person.
		Durable solutions for those who are displaced include repatriation (return to one’s country of origin), local integration, and resettlement in a third country.
	www.churchworldservice.org /africainitiative/displaced.html (409 words)

	SSRN-Refugee or Internally Displaced Person? To Where Should One Flee? by Will Moore, Steve Shellman
		This study investigates the circumstances that lead some countries to produce a large number of refugees and relatively few internally displaced persons (IDPs) as opposed to a large number of IDPs and relatively few refugees.
		We develop the hypothesis that refugee flows are greater in the face of state (sponsored) genocide/politicide than they are in response to other state coercion, dissident campaigns of violence, or civil wars.
		We employ a sample selection model to conduct statistical analyses using data on a global sample of countries for the period 1976-1995.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=707783 (313 words)

	Youth Advocate Program International
		People may become internally-displaced persons or refugees because they are persecuted due to their race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.
		Children are especially vulnerable because they depend on the protection of their parents or guardians from whom they are often separated during moves, in large refugee camps, or while being held in detention camps.
		• Sexual exploitation, especially for adolescent girls, occurs because children become more vulnerable to sexual (and other) abuses when they are displaced from their homes and their state has weak legal systems and ineffective police enforcement.
	www.yapi.org /refugee (922 words)

	UNIFEED
		Wide shot, Cecilia Kiden David, internally displaced person, embracing her daughter
		Jackson Daw does not like taking risks, but he is about to put the lives of his family members on the line.
		This is a camp for Internally Displaced People just outside Kosti, the main Nile river port which serves Khartoum.
	www.un.org /unifeed/script.asp?scriptId=1249 (1619 words)

	displaced - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "displaced" is defined.
		Example: "The refugees were displaced by the war"
		Phrases that include displaced: displaced person, displaced fracture, internally displaced person, displaced persons, displaced terrane, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=displaced (159 words)

	UNDP Maldives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Background: The tsunami resulted in the displacement of over 10,000 people (Internally Displaced Persons, or IDPs).
		The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) of the United Nations, and the Managing Internally Displaced Persons (MIDP) Unit of the National Disaster Management Centre have recently finished a nationwide programme training IDP committees.
		Communicate directly with IDP Committee representatives and, as appropriate, island office staff / island chiefs on issues related to IDPs on the islands.
	mirror.undp.org /maldives/vacancy/idp.htm (278 words)

	Refugee and Internally Displaced Person Flows (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This page describes research that models the flows of refugees and internally displaced persons over the period 1952-1995.
		We use a rational choice as a heuristic to develop hypotheses about the information people monitor to make a decision whether to abandon their homes and, if so, where to relocate.
		The Project, Modeling Flows of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, received funding from the National Science Foundation (SES-0099313) and the Council on Research and Creativity at Florida State University.
	garnet.acns.fsu.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /~whmoore/RefugeeandInternallyDisplacedPersonFlows.htm (585 words)

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