Protection of and Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons

A/RES/52/130View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 112b Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, published in 1998.

What other versions does this mandate have?

16 versions · 1996–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/211

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/211	Protection of and assistance to internally displaced persons	6,278	97%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/205	Protection of and assistance to internally displaced persons	6,248	93%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/167	Protection of and assistance to internally displaced persons	5,898	92%Compare
2020	A/RES/74/160	Protection of and assistance to internally displaced persons	5,628	26%Compare
2018	A/RES/72/182	Protection of and assistance to internally displaced persons	5,137	74%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Children Data Collection Displaced Persons Humanitarian Assistance Refugee Assistance Refugee Protection Women

What’s in this document?

12 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the representative of the Secretary-General on internally displaced persons;⁴

⁴A/52/506, annex.

Commends the representative of the Secretary-General for the activities undertaken so far, despite the limited resources available to him, and for the catalytic role he continues to play in raising the level of consciousness about the plight of internally displaced persons;

Encourages the representative of the Secretary-General to continue his analysis of the causes of internal displacement, the needs of those displaced, measures of prevention and ways to increase protection, assistance and solutions for internally displaced persons;

Also encourages the representative of the Secretary-General to continue to pay specific attention in his review to the protection and assistance needs of women and children, bearing in mind the relevant strategic objective in the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women;⁵

⁵Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.

Looks forward to the comprehensive study being prepared by the representative of the Secretary-General to promote a comprehensive strategy for better protection, assistance and development for internally displaced persons;

Welcomes Commission on Human Rights resolution 1997/39,2 in which the Commission encouraged the representative of the Secretary-General to continue, on the basis of his compilation and analysis of legal norms, to develop a comprehensive framework for the protection of internally displaced persons, and takes note of his preparations for guiding principles to this end;

Calls upon all Governments to continue to facilitate the activities of the representative of the Secretary-General, in particular Governments with situations of internal displacement, encourages them to give serious consideration to inviting the representative to visit their countries so as to enable him to study and analyse more fully the issues involved, and thanks those Governments which have already done so;

Invites Governments to give due consideration, in dialogue with the representative of the Secretary-General, to his recommendations and suggestions addressed to them, in accordance with his mandate, and to inform him of measures taken thereon;

Urges all relevant United Nations humanitarian assistance and development organizations concerned to enhance their collaboration with the representative of the Secretary-General by developing frameworks of cooperation to promote protection, assistance and development for internally displaced persons and to provide all possible assistance and support to him;

Also urges those organizations, especially through the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, to develop a more comprehensive and coherent system of collecting data on the situation of internally displaced persons, in cooperation with the representative of the Secretary-General;

Requests the Secretary-General to give all necessary assistance to the representative to carry out his mandate effectively;

Decides to continue its consideration of this question at its fifty-fourth session.

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