Atty. Cecilia Jimenez of the Norwegian Refugee Council-Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (NRC-IDMC) Senior
Training and Legal Office bares that in 2011, there is 26.4 Internally
Displaced Persons in the country as a result of armed conflict and generalized
violence and at least 36 million people newly displaced by sudden-onset natural
disasters, during the Training Workshop on the Protection of IDPs held recently
at the Paradise Island Resort, Samal, Davao City. (JPG/PIA-Caraga)
Photo shows (clockwise) Atty. Junitte
Barroquillo, Commission on Human Rights (CHR) Region XI Regional Director; Dr.
Blanche Gobenciong, Office of Civil Defense (OCD) Region XIII Regional Director;
Atty. Cecilia
Jimenez of the Norwegian Refugee Council-Internal Displacement
Monitoring Center (NRC-IDMC)
Senior Training and Legal Office; and
Atty. Marylin Pintor, CHR Region XIII Regional Director discussing the following topics respectively:
International and National frameworks of displacement, State Responsibility to
protect the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Durable Solutions in Internal
Displacement with conclusions and recommendations, during the Training Workshop
on the Protection of IDPs held recently at the Paradise Island Resort, Samal,
Davao City. (JPG/PIA-Caraga)
Representatives of government agencies, non-government organizations (NGOs), civil society indigenous people
organizations, and focal
persons of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Caraga Link are shown here
identifying the priority actions as benchmark for the prevention and protection
of human rights of the IDPs, during the Training Workshop on the Protection of IDPs
held recently at the Paradise Island Resort, Samal, Davao City.
(JPG/PIA-Caraga)
