A/RES/74/160
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
27 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 70 (b)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights
questions, including alternative approaches for improving
the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental
freedoms
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 18 December 2019
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/399/Add.2)]
74/160.
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
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,
Recalling the very large number of people who are displaced within national
borders and the potential for such persons to seek protection 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
persons in this regard, including the need for comprehensive and disaggregated data
and other measures aimed at preventing and reducing such displacements,
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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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