The most urgent need of the IDPs is protection. Food, shelter and etc. come after. For me, there needs to be an international organization to be able to answer all kinds of requirements of the IDPs from the first displacement until the final return. UNHCR has been doing as possible as it can to support IDPs beside its original responsibility of refugees. However, it is accepted even in the official website of the organization that ''UNHCR´s original mandate does not specifically cover IDPs". So far, cooperation among agencies has been the international reaction to the IDPs problem. Different agencies such as UNHCR, OCHA, UNICEF or ICRC have been assisting the IDPs as long as the size and the shape of their mandate. But there still needs an organization to organize this assistance from various agencies. Moreover, this organization might be the legal and true voice of the IDPs and lobby not only in the United Nations but also in the states that are the regional or global power.
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