Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think continuously make the case that not addressing internal displacement will have a number of knock-on effects that will slow down a country's development trajectory. As well, try to convince these national governments that it is actually in their own self-interest to both p

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As I was saying, I don't think there's any kind of political appetite for expanding the definition of IDPs or developing some kind of international framework for IDPs. As we were saying earlier, it is quintessentially a domestic issue. That will never change. We need to recogni

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think this is probably the most crucial question. The crux, really, of the issue around internal displacement is, as you said, national sovereignty. National sovereignty has been a barrier to making progress on this agenda ever since the UN guiding principles on internal displa

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much for the questions. I'm glad that you've gone to visit our website, and perhaps you'll have seen by looking at our global maps that it's true, as I was saying in my presentation, that we report high levels of disaster displacement every year, and within those

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The situation of internally displaced persons is very specific and requires a very specific type of response, because we're talking about citizens or permanent residents of a country who become displaced as a result of one or several possible factors. Armed conflict and generaliz

Citizenship and Immigration committee  IDPs unfortunately don't fall under UNHCR's mandate formally, although of course the UNHCR has been responding in a number of IDP contexts across the world and over the years. They are right now in a process of developing their IDP policy, which seeks to clarify what UNHCR's enga

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, because they don't leave their country, IDPs require a very different type of response. They need to be protected and assisted inside the borders of their country. A lot of the countries I'm talking about are in many cases failed states, or in other cases just fragile, low-

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not familiar with that and I wouldn't really wish to comment too much on the political situation in Myanmar and what is required in terms of diplomatic efforts or sanctions to be levelled against the government there.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely. As I said, countries such as Iraq and Syria have experienced large IDP crises. In those countries there are IDPs who have been repeatedly displaced over long periods of time and whose resilience has been extremely eroded over the years, but there is now talk and alrea

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's true that some of the highest and most severe levels of internal displacement that we've recorded recently have taken place in some of the most conflict-ridden countries, such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which re-erupted into conflict back in 2016 and into 2017,

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you for the opportunity to be here today. I'm here to talk about the phenomenon of internal displacements, its global scale, some of its underlying causes and longer-term impacts, and possible solutions to it. I'm the director of the Intern