habitual residence […], who have not crossed an internationally recognized State border.”22 Internally displaced persons are not the subject of a specific treaty adopted at the universal level, and fall outside of the scope of the 1951 Convention. This is on account of their remaining within an internationally recognized border. The one document most regularly referred to is that of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.23 These are a set of guidelines based on binding international human rights and humanitarian law, and they define the basic notions concerning internal displacement. The Principles are considered to be, “an important international framework for the protection of internally displaced persons […. that] take effective measures to increase the protection of internally displaced persons.”24 The Principles are designed to aid governments in the formulation of their own policies and legislations. 22 Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4 /1998/53/Add.2 (Feb. 11, 1998). 23 Ibid. 24 G.A. Res, 60/1, U.N. Doc. No. A/RES/60/1 (Oct. 24, 2005). 13