A/RES/72/182
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 72 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2017
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/72/439/Add.2)]
72/182.
Protection of and assistance to internally displaced persons
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling that internally displaced persons are persons or groups of persons who
have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual
residence, in particular as a result of or in order to avoid the effects of armed conflict,
situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or natural or human made disasters, and who have not crossed an internationally recognized State border, 1
Recognizing that internally displaced persons are to enjoy, in full equality, the
same rights and freedoms under international and domestic law as do other persons
in their country,
Deeply disturbed by the alarmingly high numbers of internally displaced
persons throughout the world, for reasons including violations and abuses of human
rights and violations of international humanitarian law, armed conflict, persecution,
violence and other reasons, including terrorism, as well as natural and human -made
disasters, who receive inadequate protection and assistance, and conscious of the
serious challenges that this is creating for host communities, national and local
authorities and the international community,
Mindful of the significant humanitarian assistance required to meet the needs of
people in protracted situations of internal displacement and of the large gap between
needs and resources,
Recalling the very large number of people who are displaced within national
borders and the potential for such persons to seek pr otection and assistance in other
countries as refugees or migrants, and noting the need for reflection on effective
strategies to ensure adequate protection and assistance for internally displaced
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See Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement (E/CN.4/1998/53/Add.2, annex), introduction,
para. 2.
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