Progress and challenges relating to the human rights of IDPs 2016, para. 61
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- Generalized violence may be gang-related or criminal in nature, or may be violence targeted at minority ethnic, religious, political or other groups. It may be caused or triggered by specific events, such as elections, or it may be associated with development projects. It may affect a small group in a localized area or a large, widely dispersed community. Intimidation, harassment or the threat of violence may also trigger displacement. In some situations, the international community may recognize internal displacement situations while a national Government denies or downplays the situation. Consequently, political will to deal with internal displacement instead of denying it remains a vital component of appropriate national and international action, since acknowledgment of the issue within a particular context is the vital first step towards addressing it.
- 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)
- Movement
- Violence
- 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. 61.
- Paragraph number
- 61
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