The United Nations has declared asylum to be an inalienable human right, and most countries offer it. The principle is that nations should safeguard people who face persecution or danger when their own countries can’t or won’t protect them. There have long been debates over who deserves sanctuary, but today the discord goes deeper. In the wake of violence in the Middle East and Afghanistan and parts of Africa and Central America, the number of people seeking asylum has risen to record levels.
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- Myanmar refugees sent back from Thailand as military, rebels regroup
MAE SOT, Thailand -- When aid groups arrived before noon on Wednesday to deliver lunch to around 2,000 Myanmar civilians sheltering in Mae Sot, a border town inside Thai territory, they found the biggest camp nearly cleared out.
04/24/2024 - 7:41 pm | View Link - Why host country education for refugees isn’t a magical solution
Should education policies push to include refugee children in national school programmes? What looks good on paper doesn’t always work in practice.
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- Ukrainian refugee crisis (2022–present)
An ongoing refugee crisis began in Europe in late February 2022 after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Over 6 million refugees fleeing Ukraine are recorded across Europe, [1] while an estimated 8 million others had been displaced within the country by late May 2022. [needs update] [2] [3] [4] Approximately one-quarter of the country's total ...
04/22/2024 - 5:46 am | View Link - Refugees | USCIS
Under United States law, a refugee is someone who: A refugee does not include anyone who ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise participated in the persecution of any person on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. For the legal definition of refugee, see section 101 (a) (42) of ...
04/22/2024 - 5:25 am | View Link - Refugee Facts and Statistics | USA for UNHCR
Refugee Facts. More than 114 million people have been forced to flee their homes. Learn more about refugees and this global crisis. Faces of Refugees. Faces of crisis - homes, villages, and even countries lost. Their harrowing stories are of feat and flight... and courage. Siham, age 10, fled Dar’a, Syria with her parents and six siblings.
04/21/2024 - 7:16 pm | View Link - Protecting Refugees: questions and answers | UNHCR
Refugees should receive at least the same rights and basic help as any other foreigner who is a legal resident, including freedom of thought, of movement, and freedom from torture and degrading treatment. Economic and social rights are equally applicable. Refugees should have access to medical care, schooling and the right to work.
04/21/2024 - 9:08 am | View Link - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency | UNHCR
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple crises on multiple continents, and provided vital protection and assistance to refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people ...
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