Internally Displaced Persons and International Refugee Law

by Brd'id Nd'i- Ghrd'ainne and Bríd Ní Ghráinne

Book Overview

Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are persons who have been forced to leave their places of residence as a result of armed conflict, violence, human rights violations, or natural or human-made disasters, but who have not crossed an international border. There are about 55 million IDPs in the world today, outnumbering refugees by roughly 2:1. Although IDPs and refugees have similar wants, needs and fears, IDPs have traditionally been seen as a domestic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198868448
• ISBN13: 9780198868446
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.4"