Noting the increasing dissemination, promotion and application of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement when dealing with situations of internal displacement,

In Colombia, internal displacement affected more than 2 million people.

This includes effectively addressing the protection challenges posed by internal displacement.

In order to strengthen the response to internal displacement, the Inter Agency Standing Committee issued, in September 2004, a policy package on implementing the collaborative response to situations of internal displacement.

The United Nations agencies must seek to determine the underlying causes of internal displacement.

Addressing the situations of internal displacement placed a premium on partnerships, namely with NGOs.

In September 2005, the Project on Internal Displacement, in conjunction with the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, sponsored an inaugural course entitled The law of internal displacement in San Remo, Italy, for policymakers and practitioners from around the world.

In 1998, the UN issued Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, which sets out these legal rights.

Decides to continue its consideration of the question of internal displacement at its sixty second session.

Internal displacement is often protracted in 2004, the average length of displacement was 14 years, with the overwhelming majority of internally displaced persons being displaced for more than a year.

Welcoming the increasing dissemination, promotion and application of the Guiding Principles when dealing with situations of internal displacement,

Welcoming the increasing dissemination, promotion and application of the Guiding Principles when dealing with situations of internal displacement,

Within the United Nations system, the creation of an Internal Displacement Division in OCHA alongside the mandate of the Representative of the Secretary General on the human rights of internally displaced persons has advanced the Organization's institutional response to mass exoduses and internal displacement.

In Africa, the conflict in Darfur, Sudan, has led to the internal displacement of more than 1.6 million persons.

A national integrated strategy for IDPs had also been developed, in line with the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.

The Representative has also been instrumental in making further progress in the ongoing study of the problem of internal displacement.

While the overall number of refugees has slowly decreased since the early 1990s, internal displacement figures have remained relatively constant, at the 2001 level of an estimated 25 million (see graph).5 While the overall figure for internal displacement remains constant, the situation on the ground is not static.

Internationally displaced persons were the primary responsibility of States, as clearly indicated in the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement issued by UNHCR.

With the increasing pattern of internal, rather than international, armed conflicts, and the rising regularity of extreme weather events affecting millions of people, internal displacement poses an even greater challenge to future generations.

(b) Report of the Secretary General on the performance and effectiveness of the new mechanism on internal displacement (resolution 2004 55, para. 27)

(b) Report of the Secretary General on the performance and effectiveness of the new mechanism on internal displacement (resolution 2004 55, para. 27)

It is therefore encouraging to note that over the past five years several countries have adopted specific policies or legislation concerning internal displacement.

The Millennium Summit had advanced the agenda of the international community's response to internal displacement, although developing a more predictable response remained a challenge.

The Millennium Summit had advanced the agenda of the international community's response to internal displacement, although developing a more predictable response remained a challenge.

In September 2005, the Inter Agency Standing Committee (IASC) had supported the clear delineation of responsibilities within the inter agency collaborative approach to internal displacement.

Another IDP situation of concern to the Office in 2004 was in Colombia, where the humanitarian crisis continued to cause significant new internal displacement (240,000).

Such persons have the right to protection from displacement, protection during displacement and protection after displacement.

A gender sub roster was established during the reporting period and a number of deployments made to address gender concerns and situations of statelessness and internal displacement.

There was a general consensus, underlined by the Humanitarian Response Review, that the inability to address internal displacement had become the single biggest failure in humanitarian action.

The Project has also begun a process of drafting a guide for legislators on how effect may best be given to the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, through its inter agency Internal Displacement Division, also continued its efforts to support the effective implementation of a collaborative response.

His Government had developed a comprehensive policy which gave due consideration to the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and was awaiting the comments of all the stakeholders concerned.

Concerning the recommendation contained in his report (A 60 338, para. 65 (c)), his Government had elaborated an integrated strategy based on the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.

The main focus of the Inter Agency Internal Displacement Division in Africa is on IDPs in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Somalia, the Sudan and Uganda.

5 Graph on internally displaced and refugee populations from Internal Displacement Global Overview of Trends and Developments in 2004, Global IDP Project, Norwegian Refugee Council, March 2005, p. 9.

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(h) To create a secure environment that would facilitate the voluntary return of displaced persons in safety and dignity and to respect fully the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement in this regard

(h) To create a secure environment that would facilitate the voluntary return of displaced persons in safety and dignity and to respect fully the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement in this regard

In commemoration of the Nakba, and the displacement that continues today, we are releasing 'An Ongoing Displacement'.

Disaster and development induced displacement

Requests the Representative of the Secretary General to address the complex problem of internal displacement, in particular by mainstreaming human rights of the internally displaced into all relevant parts of the United Nations system

UNHCR is fully committed to the inter agency collaborative approach to situations of internal displacement and to doing whatever possible, within its means and without detriment to its core mandate, to strengthen this approach.

An important element of the Division's work is promoting the implementation of the IASC Policy Package on the Implementation of the Collaborative Response to Situations of Internal Displacement that was endorsed in September 2004.

Recognize the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement as the basic international norm for the protection of internally displaced persons and commitments to promote the incorporation of those principles through national legislation and national practices

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the internal displacement of populations continues, especially in Katanga, where an offensive attack by the Government army is under way to dislodge the Mai Mai from certain areas.