Internally Displaced Persons and Indigenous Peoples: The Necessity of a Special Protection Regime
The situation of internally displaced persons (hereinafter IDPs) around the glob is getting worse by the minute. The international community has responded by creating norms that ban the actions of belligerents (during armed conflicts) and States (in times of peace) which produce the unlawful displacement of people. However, an important part of the IDPs in the Americas are Indigenous Peoples; and even though there are some specialized norms for protecting them of the displacement, those norms focus exclusively in the proprietary interest of Indigenous peoples.