Definition(s)
A person or groups of persons who has 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 generalised violence, violations of human rights or natural or human-made disasters, and who have not crossed an internationally recognised State border.
Source(s)
Art. 2 of UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, 1998
Translations
- BG: вътрешно разселено лице
- CS: vnitřně vysídlená osoba
- DE: Binnenvertriebener
- EL: εσωτερικώς εκτοπισθείς
- EN: internally displaced person
- ES: población desplazada internamente
- ET: riigisiseselt ümberasustatud isik / riigisisene põgenik
- FI: maan sisällä siirtymään joutunut henkilö / maan sisäinen pakolainen
- FR: personne déplacée à l’intérieur de son propre pays
- GA: duine easáitithe de thír
- HU: belső menekült
- IT: sfollato interno
- LT: viduje perkeltasis asmuo
- LV: iekšzemē pārvietota persona
- MT: Persuna sfollata internament / f’pajjiżha stess
- NL: in eigen land ontheemd persoon
- PL: osoba przesiedlona wewnętrznie
- PT: deslocado interno
- RO: persoană strămutată în interiorul țării / persoană strămutată intern
- SK: vnútorne vysídlená osoba
- SL: notranje razseljena oseba
- SV: internflykting
- NO: internt fordrevet person (b); internt fordriven person (n)
- KA: (ქვეყნის შიგნით) იძულებით გადაადგილებული პირი
- UK: внутрішньо переміщена особа
Synonym(s)
- IDP
Broader Term(s)
Related Term(s)
Note(s)
For more information, see the website of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) .