Title: Legal provision of the rights and freedoms of internally displaced persons in Ukraine
Abstract: The article analyzes the conceptual definition of the concept of “internally displaced persons”. In addition, the effective provisions of the legislation of foreign countries on the legal protection of the status of persons who are forced to leave their place of permanent residence are separated. The paper identifies a number of problems in the field of ensuring the rights and freedoms of IDP’s in Ukraine. The State Targeted Program for Reconstruction and Peacebuilding in the Eastern Regions of Ukraine was analyzed, the implementation of which was envisaged during 2017–2020. The program emphasizes the challenges, not only economic but social in nature, of the reintegration of internally displaced persons and combatants. The negative effects of forced displacement are equally tangible for both internally displaced persons and their host territorial communities. The load on social infrastructure facilities, the decline in the level and quality of service delivery, social instability cause dissatisfaction and misunderstanding between increasingly vulnerable internally displaced persons, combatants returning home, and territorial communities of inhabited settlements. Without proper regulation, internal displacement becomes a growing burden for host communities to provide basic services, which undermines social cohesion, undermines public investment in reform, creates uncertainty among the population, and increases the risk of further complications.