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Internally displaced persons, or IDPs, as defined by the United Nations’ Refugee Agency, are people that, unlike refugees, “have not crossed an international border to find sanctuary, but have remained inside their home countries” 1 . Following the principle of sovereignty, the international community’s role on the protection of IDPs’ rights should always be secondary or complementary to the State or nation in which such persons are internally displaced. Like the rest of the world’s population, IDPs are entitled to the same human rights as those established by international human rights legislature and customary law. Furthermore, in periods of armed conflict, they have the same right to the protections provided by international humanitarian law as other civilians.The Special Representative for Internally Displaced Persons of the UN Secretary- General estimates the Global IDP population at 25 million. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center...

                                                The date is 3 October 1990 when the democratic West Germany and the socialist East Germany were reunified with the motto "Unity and Justice and Freedom ".From then the Federal Republic of Germany is striving to eliminate all sorts of human right violation. Germany is a well developed country which is the European source, point of transit and destination country for women, children and men subjected to trafficking in persons.The German government has undertaken several preventive initiatives over the last few years. The Alliance against Human Trafficking for Labor Exploitation, a project carried out by the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS) with European Social Fund (ESF) funding, has produced various activities to date. The European Union and UNODC have launched the global acti...