Recognizes that the involuntary displacement of persons within their own countries is a problem of global dimensions, and that the plight of such-internally displaced persons, whose numbers may exceed those of refugees, is a matter of grave humanitarian concern;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
Governance & Rule of Law
Humanitarian
Movement
Person(s) affected
Persons on the move
Year
1994
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
ExCom Conclusion No. 75, Internally Displaced Persons (1994), OP (a).