Climate change and internal displacement 2011, para. 40
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The Guiding Principles define internally displaced person as "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 conflicts, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or natural or human-made disasters, and who have not crossed an internationally recognized state border".
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)
Humanitarian
Movement
Violence
Person(s) affected
Persons on the move
Year
2011
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
SR Internally Displaced Persons, Report to the UNGA (2011), A/66/285, para. 40.