Refugees
In 1863, the artist George Caleb Bingham captured the upheaval, uncertainty, and injustice that refugees faced during the Civil War in his painting General Order 11. This painting depicts civ...
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Environmental Refugees
The term environmental refugee was coined in the late 1980s by the United Nations Environment Programme and refers to people who are forced to leave their community of origin ...
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Refugees
According to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a "refugee" is an individual who
owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religi...
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A refugee is defined as a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, in time of war, persecution or disaster. The important part in defining a refugee is:
- The person ...
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Refugees are often confused with immigrants and asylum seekers, where in fact there are many differences between them. The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and it's 1967 Protocol, t...
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Jordan and Syria complained Thursday they have been abandoned by the West to deal with the massive burden of more than 2 million Iraqi refugees who have fled the violence in their homeland.Both cou...
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After more than a decade in refugee camps, Jean Kayobera was ready to come home.He longed to see his house, although he heard it had been taken over by another family during the Central African nat...
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Police evicted a handful of families Wednesday from temporary homes set up to house them after they were displaced 15 years ago by fighting in Russia's troubled North Caucasus, a human rights activ...
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Wild cheers rise from the crowd as the mud huts crumble to the ground, sending plumes of red dust into the blue sky.For thousands of Ugandans who called the cramped quarters home during one of Afri...
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Nairobi (dpa) - Countries must find a balance between securing
their borders to keep out unwanted people like terrorists, while also
guaranteeing protection for refugees, th...
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BRUSSELS, Oct 16 (Reuters) - The U.N.'s refugee chief warned
on Tuesday of the danger of a refugee crisis in northern Iraq, a
day after Turkey's cabinet asked parliament for permission to
launch a...
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Kathmandu (dpa) - Bhutanese refugees have warned of fresh protests
along Nepal's international border with India if India reneged on its
promise to help resolve the crisis, ...
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Kathmandu (dpa) - A Bhutanese refugee was shot dead by police
trying to control riots in a camp run by the United Nations in
eastern Nepal, officials said Sunday.
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Indian troops opened fire on hundreds of Bhutanese refugees who have been trying for two days to cross the small patch of Indian territory that separates Nepal from their homeland, officials said.A...
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Oct 29 (Reuters) - "Battalion 5", a group of mostly
Palestinian rappers, sings about the miserable conditions of
Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. Here are some facts about the camps: * HOW D...
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Refugees
Environmental Refugees
Refugees
Social Justice: Refugees
Iraqi refugees burdening neighbors
