Abstract
This chapter provides a conceptual framework and a number of ideas regarding the work international human rights field officers (HRFOs) can do to foster the protection of internally displaced persons. It focuses on internal displacement, and locates human rights work for internally displaced persons in the wider context of international human rights and humanitarian work carried out primarily by the United Nations (UN) in the last two decades. The chapter makes practical recommendations as to how the work of HRFOs can be made more effective in the provision of protection to internally displaced persons, and the extent to which HRFOs can make a difference to them. After a decade of considerable prodding by the Representative, the Emergency Relief Coordinator, and various NGOs, a shift became noticeable, in that international agencies began to define and discuss the protection' of internally displaced persons.
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