#Ukraine: Translaing #IDPs’ Protection into legislative action
▻http://www.internal-displacement.org/assets/publications/2016/20161219-idmc-ukraine-translating-idps-protection-legislative
#déplacés_internes #réfugiés #migrations #asile
#Ukraine: Translaing #IDPs’ Protection into legislative action
▻http://www.internal-displacement.org/assets/publications/2016/20161219-idmc-ukraine-translating-idps-protection-legislative
#déplacés_internes #réfugiés #migrations #asile
More than 1.6 million people are registered as inter-
nally displaced in Ukraine. Most have been forced to
flee their homes over the past two years as a result
of the political chaos sparked by anti-government
protests in 2014, Russia’s annexation of Crimea, the
self-proclamation of the “people’s republics” of
Donetsk and Luhansk and intense armed conflict in
the east of the country. 1 Those who have fled from
Donbas and Crimea to other regions in Ukraine are
referred to as pereselentsi, a Russian term for “relo-
cated people” or “migrants” that is taken locally to
mean internally displaced people ( IDP s).