Internal displacement in 2010: What are the major challenges? 2010, para. 75
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In conflict situations, political factors are often the primary cause of protracted displacement with parties to the conflicts not willing to achieve peace, which would allow the displaced to return. Even after major hostilities have ceased, resolution of the underlying conflict is often frozen and internally displaced persons are at risk of being manipulated as pawns. They cannot return, because they are seen as being associated with the enemy. At the same time, they are often prevented from integrating locally, because political decision makers calculate that continued pressure to return will uphold their territorial claims.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
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Special Procedures' report
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N.A.
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Humanitarian
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Person(s) affected
Persons on the move
Year
2010
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Other
Reference
SR Internally Displaced Persons, Report to the HRC (2010), A/HRC/13/21, para. 75.