New Standards for the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons: A Proposal for a Comprehensive Approach

Border-controlled health inequality: the international community's neglect of internally displaced persons

“…Of course, it must be recognized that IDPs have obtained increasing protection from UNHCR as well as refugees (Petrasek 1995, Betts 2009), but the institution still only protects a fraction of refugees and responsibility for IDPs remains principally with the national authorities governing them (UNHCR 2010). This difference in institutional coverage for the forcibly displaced, as a consequence of the disparity in international law, destined IDPs to become infamous as one of the most vulnerable populations of this century (McNamara 2005).…”