Background Photographs acknowledgment to:

•Keith Bacongco - http://www.flickr.com/photos/kitoy

adimir Hernandez - http://www.flickr.com/photos/amir_ershad

Awareness Module
Presented by HECTOR MIÑOZA

United Nations
Guiding Principles
on Internal
Displacement
a rights-based approach to development
• To promote the United Nations
Guiding Principles on Internal
Displacement (UNGPID) as
enabling policy environment
• To understand the rights-based
approach as a vision of
development towards the
universal realization of human
rights and freedom
• To value the relationship between
a rights-based approach to
development and the Right to
Development Objectives
of this section
UNGPID synopsis
 Guiding Principles
1. General Principles
2. Principles to protection from

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displacement
3. Principles relating to during
displacement
4. Principles relating to humanitarian
sections
assistance
5. Principles relating to return,
resettlement and reintegration
 General Principles
• IDPs have equal rights and equal
opportunities as all other persons
• IDPs have special needs
• IDPs are composed of vulnerable
groups
• IDPs shall not be discriminated
against as a result of their having
been displaced.
 Protection from
displacement
• Prohibition against arbitrary
displacement
• Identifying alternative to
displacement
• Consultation with affected parties
• Minimizing displacement and its
adverse effects
 Protection during
displacement
• Enhancing protection of physical
security and freedom of movement
• Preserving family and community
• Protecting economic, social, and
cultural rights
• Protecting basic freedom
 Humanitarian
assistance
• Responsibilities of authorities
• Role of the humanitarian assistance
organization
• Protection role and security of
humanitarian personnel
Return, resettlement
& integration
• Right to return and resettlement
• Protection from discriminatory
treatment
• Right to return of property or
compensation
What does it mean to be
Internally Displaced Persons

“…are persons or group 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
and natural or human-made
UN Guiding Principles
vulnerable disaster, and whoParagraph
Introduction, have not 2
crossed international
borders.”
Why are IDPs
particularly
vulnerable?
vulnerability factors…
The social organization of
displaced communities may have
been destroyed or damaged by
the act of physical is placement;
family groups may be separated
or disrupted; women may be
forced to assume non-traditional
roles or face particular
vulnerabilities.
 vulnerability factors…
Internally displaced persons may lack identity documents essential to
receiving benefits or legal recognition; in some cases, fearing
persecution, displaced persons have sometimes got rid of such
documents.
vulnerability factors…

Internally displaced populations,

and especially groups like
children, the elderly, or pregnant
women, may experience
profound psychosocial distress
related to displacement.
The IDPs are the most vulnerable groups, they
are in need of security, they are the rights holders
- who have the rights as well to claim protection
from the government
 The IDPs - are Rights Holders
• Rights do not exist in a vacuum, they involve
corresponding obligations in the rights holders
themselves.
• The responsibilities of rights holders include
respecting and defending the rights of others,
seeking the well being of all and support justice and
 The IDPs - are Rights Holders
• Rights holders need appropriate capacities to claim
and exercise their rights fully and responsibly.
• One of the most important capacities for people to
claim and exercise human rights (even when these
are recognized by law), is when they know of such
rights.
 UNGPID
Universal Rights

• IDPs have the same

rights and
responsibilities as all
other persons.
• IDPs have special
needs.
• IDPs are composed of
vulnerable groups.
• IDPs shall not be
discriminated against
as a result of their
having been
 The State - as “duty bearers”
• The duty-bearers are those with responsibilities in
the realization of rights claimed.
• In the legal approach to human rights and human
development, the State is often to be the sole duty
bearer.
 State Obligations -
as “duty bearers”
The State should not directly
violate the rights of its
citizens (obligation to
respect), it should protect
its citizens from violations
committed by others
(obligation to protect),
and it should facilitate and
promote the full exercise of
rights by its citizens,
becoming a direct provider
in exceptional circumstances
(obligation to fulfill).
Human miseries and sufferings
provide opportunities not only for
recovery and reconstruction but
also to look into what went wrong
and improve the system to
reduce the chances of their
recurrence in future
Pre-Emergency Emergency Response

Prior to displacement During displacement

DISASTER
•Early warning IMPACT
•Emergency assessment
•Preparedness •Relief operation

Assessment
Coordination
Info Management
Resource Mobilization
Linkages

Return, Resettlement
Mitigation & Integration
•Development •Rehabilitation
•Reconstruction

Prevention Post-Emergency
“We are entering a new era of human security where
the entire concept of security will change and
change dramatically. Security will be interpreted as
security of the people, not just security of territory,
security of individuals, not just security of their
nations; security through development, not security
through arms, security of all the people everywhere
– in their home, in their job, in their streets, in their
communities, in their environment.”

Dr. Mahbub Ul Haq

United Nations Development Programme
Rights-Based Approach to
Development:
Two Basic Facts about the IDPs
1. All IDPs are not the 2. IDPs are people with
same and any single IDP strengths and capacities
group is not homogeneous. on which to build
emergency
programming responses.

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Synergy & Partnership between

Transition
safety net + self-reliance =
Integrated relief and development
We can change for the good
and happiness of all….

namaskar!
 Thank you

Background Photographs acknowledgment to:

•Keith Bacongco - http://www.flickr.com/photos/kitoy
•Vladimir Hernandez - http://www.flickr.com/photos/amir_ershad