UNHCR Protection Manual
The Protection Manual is UNHCR's repository of protection policy and guidance. The documents are listed in reverse chronological order.
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Internally Displaced Persons
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This Handbook issued by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and UNHCR provides relevant guidance to members of parliament on how best to address internal displacement as legislators and as national leaders to make their contribution towards ending internal displacement in their countries.
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- Date: 18 November 2013
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Handbook for Parliamentarians - Internal Displacement: Responsibility and Action, No 20 , 18 November 2013, https://www.refworld.org/reference/manuals/unhcr/2013/en/98095 [accessed 21 April 2025]
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- Date: June 2010
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- Date: 23 October 2009
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- Date: February 2008
Protection Cluster Working Group; Early Recovery Cluster Working Group, Protection of Conflict-Induced IDPs: Assessment for Action, Global Protection Cluster (GPC), February 2008, https://www.refworld.org/reference/manuals/gpc/2008/en/57224 [accessed 21 April 2025]
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- Date: 4 June 2007
Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme; Standing Committee, UNHCR's Role in Support of an Enhanced Humanitarian Response to Situations of Internal Displacement. Policy Framework and Implementation Strategy, EC/58/SC/CRP.18, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 4 June 2007, https://www.refworld.org/reference/annualreport/unhcr/2007/en/47720 [accessed 21 April 2025]
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- Date: 27 February 2007
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- Date: 30 November 2006
These Guiding Principles address the specific needs of internally displaced persons worldwide. They identify rights and guarantees relevant to the protection of persons from forced displacement and to their protection and assistance during displacement as well as during return or resettlement and
reintegration.
2. For the purposes of these Principles, internally displaced persons are 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.
3. These Principles reflect and are consistent with international human rights law and international humanitarian law. They provide guidance to:
(a) The Representative of the Secretary-General on internally displaced persons in carrying out his mandate;
(b) States when faced with the phenomenon of internal displacement;
(c) All other authorities, groups and persons in their relations with internally displaced persons; and
(d) Intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations when addressing internal displacement.
4. These Guiding Principles should be disseminated and applied as widely as possible.
reintegration.
2. For the purposes of these Principles, internally displaced persons are 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.
3. These Principles reflect and are consistent with international human rights law and international humanitarian law. They provide guidance to:
(a) The Representative of the Secretary-General on internally displaced persons in carrying out his mandate;
(b) States when faced with the phenomenon of internal displacement;
(c) All other authorities, groups and persons in their relations with internally displaced persons; and
(d) Intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations when addressing internal displacement.
4. These Guiding Principles should be disseminated and applied as widely as possible.
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- Date: 11 February 1998
Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Francis M. Deng, submitted pursuant to Commission resolution 1997/39, Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, E/CN.4/1998/53/Add.2, UN Commission on Human Rights, 11 February 1998, https://www.refworld.org/legal/otherinstr/unchr/1998/en/18487 [accessed 21 April 2025]
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- Date: 7 October 1994
Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme, Conclusion No. 75 (XLV): Internally Displaced Persons - Adopted by the Executive Committee (1994), No. 75 (XLV) 1994, 7 October 1994, https://www.refworld.org/policy/exconc/excom/1994/en/41742 [accessed 21 April 2025]