Looking forward: addressing new challenges and consolidating gains 2011, para. 71
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- Of the 27 million IDPs in the world today, the vast majority live outside the types of settings, namely IDP camps and settlements, which we have come to associate with displacement situations. Indeed, the majority live in either urban or rural settings either by their own means in rented accommodation for example, or with host families. In some situations, IDPs merge with homeless or landless sections of the population in shantytowns and squatter areas. The capacity of the humanitarian community to address the specific needs of these displaced populations, as well as the particular impact and needs of host communities, however remains inadequate. A variety of reasons have converged to promote expertise and mechanisms that provide humanitarian assistance in camps and settlements, while ad hoc responses generally remain the norm with regard to IDPs outside of camps - sometime referred to as the 'invisible displaced' due to the difficulty in identifying and assisting them once they have become part of the general population.
- 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
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2011
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Internally Displaced Persons, Report to the HRC (2011), A/HRC/16/43, para. 71.
- Paragraph number
- 71
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