Refugees

A refugee, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), is a person "forced to flee their own country and seek safety in another country. They are unable to return to their own country because of feared persecution as a result of who they are, what they believe in or say, or because of armed conflict, violence or serious public disorder." Such a person may be called an asylum seeker until granted refugee status by a contracting state or by the UNHCR if they formally make a claim for asylum.

observed June 20 each year, dedicated to raising awareness of the situation of refugees

1951 United Nations treaty

passport for stateless refugees

individual who seeks refuge, esp. political asylum, in a foreign country

refugees and displaced persons from the ongoing conflict

Non-refoulement () is a fundamental principle of international law anchored in the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees that forbids a country from deporting ("refoulement") any person to any country in which their "life or freedom would be threatened" on account of "race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion". The only exception to non-refoulement according to the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees are "reasonable grounds" of "danger to the security of the country" or "danger to the community of that country". Unlike poli

right of voluntary return to or re-enter one's country of origin or of citizenship

Proposal for a nation to resettle refugees

international law which deals with the rights and duties states have vis-a-vis refugees

1967 United Nations treaty

migration movement that is judged critically due to dimensions or conditions

Western Saharan women's rights and climate activist (* 1989)

category of children

United Nations General Assembly resolution adopted in 1974

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Practice of seeking asylum in several states

European Union Directive regarding displaced people

1939 Spanish refugees exodus to France following the Spanish Civil War

Confiscation of personal documents to prevent refugees from returning

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health effects experienced by people who have been displaced

Israeli holocaust survivor from Belarus (1927-2017)

according to the UNHCR, one of three durable solutions for refugees who fled their home country; resettled refugees may also be referred to as quota or contingent refugees, as countries only take a certain number of refugees each year

individual or family decision of a migrant to leave a host country and to return permanently to the country of origin

process of social integration of immigrants or immigrated persons

temporary status for eligible nationals of designated countries who reside in the United States

large-scale migration of Christians

1933 League of Nations document

military attack on Luhansk, Ukrain

Sahrawi poet

The Bieżeństwo (, , ) was a mass evacuation during World War I, in Polish context and historiography also called exile, resettlement or displacement of the population, mainly of Orthodox faith, from the western governorates of the Russian Empire into the depths of Russia, after the German troops broke through the front line in the period from May 3 to September 1915. The apogee of the Bieżeństwo fell in the period from spring to autumn 1915.