War and Displacement in Congo

Guiding Principles
People rest up in an improvised IDP camp in Kibati. A U.N. report, Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, uses the following definition about IDP's: "Internally displaced persons are persons or groups of persons who have 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 ... and who have not crossed an internationally recognized State border."

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