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People on the move: legal & HR responses: Forced migration, displaced people (EDPs, IDPs) & the disappeared

Subjects: Law, Refugee Studies

Forced migration, displaced people & the disappeared

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This topic includes topics such recent problems as climate change migration, ecological & environmental refugees as well as the longer established  relief from natural disasters.
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Climate change migration
Environmental refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc
Climatic changes -- Social aspects

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"Unlike refugees, IDPs have not crossed an international border to find sanctuary but have remained inside their home countries. Even if they have fled for similar reasons as refugees (armed conflict, generalized violence, human rights violations), IDPs legally remain under the protection of their own government – even though that government might be the cause of their flight. As citizens, they retain all of their rights and protection under both human rights and international humanitarian law." UNHCR

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