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The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, prepared by
the Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General
on Internally Displaced Persons, considers internally
displaced persons 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 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”
In 2006, the Gene/ral Assembly has adopted a resolution [AG/RES.
2229 (XXXVI-O/06)] relating to the Internally
Displaced Persons which among other things other things
establishes that
“appeal to the appropriate
agencies of the United Nations and inter-American systems,
and other humanitarian organizations and the international
community, to provide support and/or assistance, as
requested by states, in addressing the various factors that
cause internal displacement, and in assisting persons
affected by internal displacement at all stages, where,
should emergency humanitarian assistance be required,
account should be taken of the Guiding Principles on
strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian emergency
assistance (United Nations General Assembly resolution
46/182).”
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