My research on Internal Displacement and Protection Needs of IDPs

This research attempts to analyze the phenomenon of internal displacement within the international legal system. The research attempts to approach the existing protective framework in international refugee law and international humanitarian law. It also aims to depict the resemblances and differences accorded to a refugee and an internally displaced person (IDP) through the existing protective framework (guiding principles as adopted in the World Summit in New York) to the adoption of the first legally binding text, the Convention for the protection of internally displaced people in 2012, known as Kampala Convention. The research aims to analyze how law was used as a tool for social change and the protection of IDPs through the examination of the case at the region of Great Lakes in Central Africa until the final repatriation and reintegration of internally displaced people. It is a fact that 40% of displaced populations worldwide are in Africa (10.4 million IDPs in sub-Saharan Africa) in the year 2012, usually the result of an internal conflict or violence. In Africa, the number of internally displaced persons is almost four times greater than the number of refugees. Finally, best practices and possible solutions are proposed to tackle the problem.

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