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Refugearmenian
An Armenian refugee woman with her son. (Armenian Genocide)
Darfur refugee camp in Chad
A refugee camp in Chad, linked to the Darfur conflict

In 1951, the United Nations (UN) law called Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, said a refugee was a person who is forced to leave their country due to natural disasters or war and conflict

owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of their nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail him/herself of the protection of that country.

In 1967 the Conventions’ 1967 protocol and by regional conventions in Africa and Latin America to include persons who had fled war and violence in their country. A person who is seeking to be recognized as a refugee is an asylum seeker. In the United States a recognized asylum seeker is known as an asylee.

A refugee is a person who has to leave his or her country. This can be because of different reasons:

  • It is no longer safe to stay, there might be a natural disaster such as flood or famine, war, or civil unrest
  • There might be persecutions going on.
  • The person is unable to sustain himself or herself economically.
  • The person might have been expelled
  • The person might have to leave for religious reasons

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Images for kids

  • Gysis Nikolaos After the destruction of Psara

    Greeks fleeing the Destruction of Psara in 1824 (painting by Nikolaos Gyzis).

  • Hercegovački begunci 1889

    "Refugees from Herzegovina", painting by Uroš Predić made in the aftermath of the Herzegovina Uprising (1875–77).

  • Turkish refugees from Edirne

    Turkish refugees from Edirne, 1913

  • Spanish War Children001

    Children preparing for evacuation from Spain during the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939.

  • Czech refugees from the Sudetenland 1

    Czech refugees from the Sudetenland, October 1938

  • Bundesarchiv Bild 183-J19568, Bei Stalingrad, russische Flüchtlinge

    Russian refugees near Stalingrad, 1942

  • Bundesarchiv Bild 175-S00-00326, Flüchtlinge aus Ostpreußen auf Pferdewagen

    German refugees from East Prussia, 1945

  • Refugee camp in Guinea

    A camp in Guinea for refugees from Sierra Leone

  • Refugee camp

    Refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

  • Erstaufnahmelager Jenfelder Moorpark 4

    Erstaufnahmelager Jenfelder Moorpark

  • The Sahrawi refugees – a forgotten crisis in the Algerian desert (7)

    For over 30 years, several tens of thousands of Sahrawi refugees have been living in the region of Tindouf, Algeria, in the heart of the desert.

  • Refugee children from Syria at a clinic in Ramtha, northern Jordan (9613477263)

    Refugee children from Syria at a clinic in Ramtha, Jordan, August 2013


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