nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20221119-001715-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 221118s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20221119-001715-0 doi eng 342 23 d'Orsi, Cristiano Author aut (orcid)0000-0001-6712-5818 The Terrible Plight of Internally Displaced Persons in Central Africa - Adopting an ECCAS Protocol to Better Protect IDPs in the Area d'Orsi, Cristiano Verfassungsblog 2022-11-18 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In a never-ending humanitarian crisis, Central Africa is host to the largest community of internally displaced persons (IDPs). In early November, thousands of new IDPs, including a high number of children, found shelter in overcrowded and unsanitary camps in Goma and Lubero, in the North Kivu provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) fleeing violence in the area, caused by the intensifying fighting between the Congolese armed forces and non-state armed group M23. It is for this reason of permanent insecurity in the area that I argue that the adoption of a specific binding legal instrument could ease the management of the IDPs in the region. The adoption of such an instrument would find one of its foundations in the concept of “solidarity”. CC BY-SA 4.0 Central Africa ECCAS Migration refugees solidarity Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-terrible-plight-of-internally-displaced-persons-in-central-africa/ raw object