Refugee Status


The term refugee is often used in different contexts: in everyday usage it refers to a forcibly displaced person who has fled their country of origin; UNHCR defines a refugee as “someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war or violence”. A refugee has a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group. Most likely, they cannot return home or are afraid to do so. War and ethnic, tribal and religious violence are leading causes of refugees fleeing their countries.
To receive refugee status, a person must have applied for asylum, making them—while waiting for a decision—an asylum seeker. However, a displaced person otherwise legally entitled to refugee status may never apply for asylum, or may not be allowed to apply in the country they fled to and thus may not have official asylum seeker status.
Once a displaced person is granted refugee status they enjoy certain rights as agreed in the 1951 Refugee convention. Not all countries have signed and ratified this convention and some countries do not have a legal procedure for dealing with asylum seekers.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Environmental effects on refugees

Image
   These are just a fraction of the world’s 31.7 million refugees and other persons of concern to UNHCR. The spontaneous movement and displacement of large numbers of people may have significant impacts on the environment. Arriving in an alien situation, refugees face hunger, fatigue, humiliation and grief. Their first concern is to look after themselves, most often to find food and shelter. Trees are felled to provide support for rudimentary shelters. Dead wood is collected to build a fire for warmth and as fuel for cooking. With only a few families involved, the environmental impacts are unlikely to be too serious or long-lasting. With thousands of desperate people, however, the results can be disastrous for the environment.  What is bad for the environment is ultimately bad for human welfare.     Environmental problems exist throughout the world, but many reach an exaggerated scale where large numbers of people are forced together through a common sen...
Read more

Legal issues on refugees

Image
      Let talk about the issues surrounding the refugee problems, I understand all through information you will have in mind a human being who is in the unfortunate role that he has left his domestic country, frequently beneath tragic circumstances, and who relies upon in the first instance, when he arrives in his united states of America of asylum, on the generosity of his fellow human beings to permit him to find a dignified place underneath the sun, to set up himself anew and thus to contribute, through his work and his thinking, to take section in the things to do of our society. Those who come asking for asylum are humans as different as the humans who live in their very own country. They are intellectuals, normal workers, ladies and children, human beings who are handicapped physically and mentally, those who are old. Perhaps too ancient to work, these who are younger and need protection. There is one thing of the refugee trouble that strikes all of us immedia...
Read more

Initiatives for the asylum-seekers

Image
     There are many governmental organizations and non-governmental organization that has the main purpose of helping refugees. By existing a group of people whose main purpose is to help the refugees find a better place to live or have a better environment where they are safe from any harm that could come to them. An example of a non-governmental organization that is made to help refugees is UNHC. UNHCR maintains strategic partnerships with extra than 900 companions along with non-governmental groups (NGOs), governmental institutions and United Nations agencies. We entrust about 40 per cent of our annual expenditure to partners for undertaking programs or tasks to grant protection and solutions to people pressured to flee. UNHCR has been working with NGOs since they first started out supporting the forcibly displaced in the early 1950s. As their work and dimension grew to cope with rising refugee crises in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, mainly in Africa, Asia and Cent...
Read more