Progress and challenges relating to the human rights of IDPs 2016, para. 60
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- A broad and inclusive approach to determining who is an internally displaced person is required under the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and the Kampala Convention. In addition to situations of armed conflict and disaster-induced displacement, both standards explicitly apply to those displaced by generalized violence. The prohibition of arbitrary displacement includes displacement based on policies of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, racial discrimination or other similar practices aimed at or resulting in altering the ethnic, religious or racial composition of the affected population, as well as displacement caused by other violations of human rights or used as a collective punishment.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Internally Displaced Persons, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/32/35, para. 60.
- Paragraph number
- 60
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