Internal displacement in the current migratory crisis

• Autores: Fabíola Wust Zibetti, Liton Lanes Pilau Sobrinho, Eveline Vieira Brigido
• Localización: Revista Justiça do Direito, ISSN-e 2238-3212, ISSN 1413-7038, Vol. 31, Nº. 3, 2017, págs. 705-726
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Today, international society faces the worst migratory crisis since World War II. According to the United Nations High Commisioner for Refugees (UNHCR), by the end of 2016 there were 65.6 million people who were forced to leave their homes. Of these 65.6 million, about 40 million are internally displaced, nearly twice as many as 22.5 million refugees. That is, the number of people who were forced to flee but failed to cross the borders of their own country is much higher than those who have achieved. Therefore, the humanitarian crisis currently experienced by international society is extremely serious. Despite the high number of internally displaced people, in 2016 there was the first reduction, albeit small. It was the first reduction since the beginning of the Arab spring, when the current humanitarian crisis began. Based in this scenario, this article aims to analyze the factors that led to the reduction of the number of internally displaced people in 2016. Therefore, this article was divided into three sections. First, it aims to study the definition of internally displaced persons and their protection under international law. Afterwards, it shows and compares the data on IDPs be-tween 2011 and 2016. At the end, it analyses the circumstances leading to a reduction in the number of internally displaced people in the period between 2015 and 2016