29 October 2019): The list includes 30 of the 55 current members of the African Union. Additionally, it should also be noted that since 29 October 2019, many countries— including Mozambique, Cape Verde, Ethiopia, Senegal, Sudan, and Somalia— have either ratified the Convention recently, are close to ratification, or have expressed a strong interest in doing so recently. Treaty contents The Convention defines displaced persons as “persons or groups of persons who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of or in order to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or natural or human-made disasters, and who have not crossed an internationally recognized State border. The Convention reinforces in legal sense that the primary duty of lending support and ensuring and providing protection to internally displaced persons is that of the State's. The Convention explicitly links internal displacement specially in the fields of violence, war, human rights violations, and environmental depreciation. It heavily emphasizes the right of individuals to not be what the stakeholding parties deemed arbitrarily displaced individuals and groups— following the regular pattern of international law conformation in regards to justification of displacement, but also expanding upon regular rule here to include specific barring of the use of harmful practices and development projects as an explicit cause or justification of displacement. The document proceeds in the following sequential order— an overview of regulations and protections related to arbitrary displacement, protections given to IDPs throughout the process of displacement, and concludes with a delineation of solutions for the greater situation as a whole. Key articles The treaty includes provisions, specifically Article 3, detailing and expanding the rights of internally displaced persons mainly associated with climate change and factors relating to the environment.Through documents like the Convention, states hope to be able to reduce this by supporting systems, groups, and individuals aimed at advocating and serving the interests of IDPs. Article 7 provides an overview of the non-state actors and their roles in this situation. Article summaries Article 1: guiding definition of internally displaced person, other corresponding terms Article 2: outlines goals of the Convention Article 3: describes duties, responsibilities of the Convention Articles 4 and 10: describes strategies for the prevention of displacement within the African continent Articles 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9: describes facets