Principles of Internal Displacement

These Principles address the specific needs of displaced persons around the world. They identify the rights and guarantees relevant to the protection of persons from violence of displacement, protection and […]
Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement

Today, over twenty five million people, in some fifty countries around the world, have been uprooted within their country by conflicts and human rights violations. An equal number or more […]
Global Report on Internal Displacement

This 10th edition of the Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) once again presents record-breaking figures, with a global estimate of 83.4 million people living in internal displacement at the […]
IDPs from Kosovo: Stuck Between Uncertain Return Prospects and Denial of Local Integration

An estimated 250,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) – mainly ethnic Serbs and Roma who fled within and out of Kosovo when Yugoslav forces withdrew in 1999 – are still unable […]
Strategy for Resolving the Issue of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons for the Period from 2024 to 2030

In the last 30 years, the Republic of Serbia has provided refuge for more than 600,000 refugees and war-affected persons from the territory of the former republics of the SFRY, […]
Situation and Needs of Internally Displaced Persons

The Commissariat for Refugees and Migration of the Republic of Serbia (hereinafter: the Commissariat) in cooperation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Statistical Office of the […]
Support for IDPs in Serbia

Seventeen years after the first wave of displacement, it is estimated that 88,000 vulnerable internally displaced persons in Serbia remain with displacement related needs and lack durable solutions. in my […]
Law on Citizenship of the Republic of Serbia

The citizenship of the Republic of Serbia is acquired by origin of a child born abroad, one of whose parents is a citizen of the Republic of Serbia at the […]
Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons

Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons adopted on September 28, 1954 by the Plenipotentiary Conference representatives convened on the basis of Resolution 526 A(XVII) of the Council for Economic […]
Convention on the Reduction of the Number of Stateless Persons

Convention on the Reduction of the Number of Stateless Persons adopted on August 30, 1961 by the plenipotentiary conference representatives who met in 1959 and then met again in 1961 […]