The legal status of internally displaced persons and refugees in international law

KURUCOVÁ, Irena: Legal status of internally desplaced persons and refugees in internal law. [Rigorous thesis]. Karlova univerzita v Praze. Právnická fakulta; Katedra Medzinárodného práva. Wars, human rights violations, and disasters which affect a significant part of the population, resulted also in the formation of the new category known as "internal refugees" or " the internally displaced persons". Although these people are situated in their own country, the mentioned events lead them to the conditions that not only menace their lives but also plunging them into a material and psychological hardship and to an uncertain future. The growing numbers of the internally displaced persons (from the first census in 1982) and the risks associated with them, led to the closer perception of this problem and actions aimed towards its detailed observation and formal capture. Therefore, the current efforts for a unified format of basic legal institutes and definitions in the area of internal migration gradually move towards universal and legally binding approach of internal migration issue, although the effort in this area is currently hindered by political resentment, national interests and in some areas also by unpreparedness to cover the displacement in a form of a concrete legal tool. Although the existing..