The United Nations estimates that since March of 2011, about 200,000 people have been killed in the fighting. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees says more than four million Syrians have fled the country. U.N. officials believe about 7.6 million others have fled their h...
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This chapter describes the structure of United Nations high commissioner for refugees. The Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees is a subsidiary organ of the General Assembly, established in conformity with Article 22 of the UN Charter. The High Commissioner is elected by the General ...
Thecommon themeis that the richer nations have more economic liberty. So even though convergence theory is generally true, itcan go the other wayif poorer nations are suffering from excessive government. For today’s column, though, we’re going to look at an example of convergence rather than...
The long standing refugee problem on African continent dates back to the period of decolonization that followed colonialism in Africa when some African nationalists rose up to challenge the Whiteman domination and exploitation of the continent. Africans became refugees and internally displaced people ...
The arrivals from Latin America in earlier years were often political refugees; more recently, they usually have been economic refugees. Constituting about one-fourth of the Hispanic diaspora, this group comprises largely Central Americans, Colombians, and Dominicans, the last of whom have acted as...
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie (R) visits a refugee camp in the southern Turkish town of Altinozu in Hatay province June 17, 2011. Angelina Jolie Travels to Turkey to visit Syrian Refugees Summary: Geneva - The United Nations High Commiss...
As an international organization, it has successfully provided food to 90 million people in more than 75 countries, helped over 34 million refugees, worked with 140 nations to mitigate climate change, protected human rights violations with 80 treaties and declarations it has produced, among many oth...
Darfur conflictDarfur-related conflict zones and campsites for refugees and internally displaced peoples (IDPs) in Sudan, the Central African Republic, and Chad, 2008. In the conflicts of the 21st century, the Security Council was a much less effective body. Beginning in 2003,Arab militiasbacked...
Migrants and Asylum Seekers: Policy Responses in the United States to Immigrants and Refugees from Central America and the Caribbean (1999): "Migrants and Asylum-Seekers: Policy Responses in the United States to Immigrants and Refugees from Central America and the Caribbean" International......