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An internally displaced person is someone who is forced to leave their home but who remains within their country's borders. They are often referred to as refugees, although they do not fall within the
Villagers fleeing gunfire in a camp for internally displaced persons during the 2008 Nord-Kivu campaign
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with internally displaced people during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Migrant Mother, famous photo by Dorothea Lange of Florence Owens Thompson with her children during the Great Depression in 1936
UNRWA camp of Al-Mawasi, where displaced Palestinians live in tents to flee the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip, January 22, 2025
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in
Internally displaced person
…and Somalia (1.1 million). More than 85% of Palestinians in Gaza (1.9 million) were internally displaced as of January 2024. The United Nations and the UNHCR support monitoring and analysis of worldwide IDPs through the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. Whereas 'refugee' has an authoritative…
Barham Salih
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, near the Palace of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland
UNHCR packages containing tents, tarps, and mosquito netting sit in a field in Dadaab, Kenya, on 11 December 2006, following disastrous flooding
UNHCR 50th anniversary. Stamp of Tajikistan, 2001.