Content characteristics of the rights of internally displaced persons and host territorial communities

This article considers the content characteristic of determining the rights of an internally displaced person (an IDP) and the position of the host territorial community. The article analyzes the competencies and activities of the local authorities in the institutional or functional sense related to ensuring the rights of IDPs in wartime. It is also noted that the priority direction issues in of the policy on the protection of the IDPs rights in the near future should be the adoption of medium-term decisions aimed at providing housing, employment, social protection of IDPs, their access to education, medical care, documents identifying a person and confirming a Ukrainian citizenship, their involvement in decision-making at the local level and the use of local democracy tools, the implementation of which will significantly contribute to the integration of IDPs into host territorial communities. It is underlined that territorial communities ensure the need for retraining and advanced training of IDPs, financing local programs on of INDs employment promotion in the host territorial community. The article provides several definitions of the host territorial community based on the international sources on the IDPs issues. The main purpose of this definition is to define name a new category of persons who have special rights and are protected in a similar situation and thereby ‘to promote a more harmonious and coherent approach to human rights’. This article examines the concept of internal displacement by considering three key questions that commonly arise. Firstly, it covers definitional issues and the different points of view as to who is an IDP. Secondly, it explores the debate as to whether IDPs should even be a special category of concern. Thirdly, there is the question of when internal displacement ends or, in other words, when would it be appropriate to cease identifying IDPs as such. Exploring these questions is not simply an academic or theoretical exercise. The way they are answered may have a tremendous impact on lives of millions of people been uprooted within their own countries, and in particular on the respect for their human rights.