Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons

internally displaced person [ IDP | displaced person ]

internally displaced populations

externally displaced person

Programme for Internally Displaced Persons

Manual on Field Practice in Internal Displacement

Definition: Personality disorder characterized by excessive sensitivity to setbacks, unforgiveness of insults; suspiciousness and a tendency to distort experience by misconstruing the neutral or friendly actions of others as hostile or contemptuous; recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding the sexual fidelity of the spouse or sexual partner; and a combative and tenacious sense of personal rights. There may be excessive self-importance, and there is often excessive self-reference. | Personality (disorder):expansive paranoid | fanatic | querulant | paranoid | sensitive paranoid

internally displaced person [ IDP ]

· Adoption of the appropriate legal framework to protect the human rights of the most vulnerable groups and individuals, including refugees and internally displaced persons.

39. Calls on all sides to allow the safe and dignified return of all IDPs to their place of permanent residence in the occupied territories of the Abkhazia and Tskhinvali Region/ South Ossetia and reiterates that forced demographic change remains an unacceptable violation of international law; acknowledges the need to maintain assistance for improving the situation of IDPs and refugees and welcomes EU initiatives in remaining actively engaged in providing necessary help;

3. Welcomes the results achieved with the return of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), reconstruction and property restitution, in line with the provisions of Annex VII to the Dayton Agreement; insists on the need for full implementation of the annex and the related strategy in order to ensure a sustainable return and also fair, comprehensive and durable solutions for internally displaced persons, refugees and other war-affected persons; stresses the need to make progress in improving the socio-economic integration of those who have returned; calls for better coordination of efforts at all levels and more attention to b ...[+++]e given to the most vulnerable displaced people, including Roma and women victims of violence; highlights the need for local integration of those who have been unable to return to their areas of origin; notes with regret that, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross, there are still about 7 000 missing people whose fate remains unknown;

3. Welcomes the results achieved with the return of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), reconstruction and property restitution, in line with the provisions of Annex VII to the Dayton Agreement; insists on the need for full implementation of the annex and the related strategy in order to ensure a sustainable return and also fair, comprehensive and durable solutions for internally displaced persons, refugees and other war-affected persons; underlines in this regard the need for the sustainable return of Croats, Bosniaks and others into the Republika Srpska; stresses the need to make progress in improving the socio-economi ...[+++]c integration of those who have returned; calls for better coordination of efforts at all levels and more attention to be given to the most vulnerable displaced people, including Roma and women victims of violence; notes with regret that, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross, there are still about 7 000 missing people whose fate remains unknown;