Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement

Author(s)
OCHA
Publication language
English
Pages
13pp
Date published
01 Jan 2004
Publisher
OCHA
Type
Tools, guidelines and methodologies
Keywords
Conflict, violence & peace, Disasters, Forced displacement and migration
Organisations
United Nations Coordination Unit

These principles seek to protect all internally displaced people in conflicts, natural disasters, and other situations of forced displacement. Individual governments have begun to incorporate them in national policies and laws, international organizations and regional bodies have welcomed and endorsed them, and some national courts have begun to refer to them as relevant restatements of existing international law.