Recent decades have witnessed an enormous increase in the number of Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in South Asia. These are people who have been forcibly displaced due to violence, war, natural disasters or development projects. The vulnerability of IDPs is compounded because, unlike refugees, they are confined to the state within which they were forced to migrate, and do not get the international legal protection that international refugee laws provide for ...
Living on the Edge: Essays on the Chittagong Hill Tracts
