Journey Back Home - Internally Displaced People

Internally displaced people, or IDPs, are often wrongly called refugees. Unlike refugees, IDPs have not crossed an international border to find sanctuary but have remained inside their home countries. Even if they have fled for similar reasons as refugees (armed conflict, generalized violence, human rights violations), IDPs legally remain under the protection of their own government. As citizens, they retain all of their rights and protection under both human rights and international humanitarian law.
Read more about the farming and fishing folk return to villages in parts of north-west Sri Lanka

Data is collected from UNHR's website. Photo credit : UNHCR/B.Baloch