Human rights of internally displaced persons in the context of the Post-2015 development agenda 2015, para. 90
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Development projects, including dams, irrigation projects, pipelines, highways, urbanization, mining, and conservation of nature, can all create displacement. The Brookings Institution report, "Risks and rights: the causes, consequences, and challenges of development-induced displacement", states that it is "problematic at best, even when a State has the best interests of the entire population at heart. The effects can be catastrophic when such displacement occurs in the midst of conflict and human rights abuse, or when a State deliberately or arbitrarily targets some of its people to bear a disproportionate share of the costs of development and denies them a proper share of the benefits".
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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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Environment
Governance & Rule of Law
Humanitarian
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Persons on the move
Year
2015
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Other
Reference
SR Internally Displaced Persons, Report to the HRC (2015), A/HRC/29/34, para. 90.