United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

process in order for Syrian refugees to receive aid and refugee resettlements status in other countries. Syrian’s are not only at risk in their home country, they are also at risk in other countries where they would want to…

REFUGEES: ACCESSING SERVICES Definition of Refugees and accessing services What is a refugee? According to the World Relief (2015) a refugee is someone who has fled their home country and cannot return home do to a fear of prosecution based on countless factors. There are numerous refugees that enter the United States and remarkedly some of them will not be able to access all of the services they need to survive. For some of the people that live here illegally they are afraid to find help for…

Survivors. The author has work experience in working with refugees in the Australia and overseas. The article addressed the misconceptions of the ‘boat people’ by some Australian political leaders and local citizens. The issue of the ‘boat people’ has been going on over decades in Australian history since 1970s . It has been the political battle ground in the Australian politics. In the article, the author clearly introduces the refugees’ mercies in the sea; the author cited capsize December…

my understanding of the struggles that refugees encounter. I just felt that picking a role that I can relate to, could provide me with more of an opportunity for sympathy. Next came more of a challenging choice. It is stated that numerous Syrians were forced to leave their homes and that I sold my home for a mere $20,000. From there I had to make the difficult choice of spending more money and having a better outcome with Turkey,…

Hungary woman tripped refugees Snapshot of the issue According the news from the telegraph, 25th SEP, a Hungarian camerawoman was caught tripped refugees who carried a kid when refugees rushed passed her. This woman called Petra Laszlo, works for N1TV. After this issue, she was fired by this Tv station. The N1TV said Petra’s behavior is unacceptable and working relationship was ended (Ensor 2015). She also aroused whole public’s anger, many criticized that she is a racist heartless woman. Few…

Jack Donnelly would grant Fauziya Kissindja political asylum in the United States based on the definition of a refugee. A refugee is “any person who has a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of particular social and political group...unable or, owing to such fear is unwilling to return to it” (Fullerton, 2006, p. 138). Donnelly’s reasoning would revolve around Kissindja’s well-founded fear of persecution by a social group, not on the sole basis…

Persecution refers to the well-founded fear of physical or economic harm, among others. 1 In order to gain refugee or asylum status, it is imperative that the petitioner establish clearly well-founded fear to the officers of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or the immigration judge. Well-founded fear can be based on race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. 2 However, the term well-founded fear is not defined very clearly; therefore, the…

In recent years, with rising conflicts and intense persecution in various parts of the world, a UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) report (2015) revealed that 63.5 million people have been displaced from their homes. “The number of refugees who have fled across international borders due to conflict and persecution is at the highest level in recorded history” (Dryden-Peterson, 2015). Unfortunately, a large number of Pakistani minority groups had to leave their home country and…

individuals have been termed “refugees.” More specifically, as defined by the 1951 Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is a person who “is outside of the country of his nationality, and is unable to, or [because of] fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country” (Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees). In response to refugee crises, relief organizations such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)…

growth of illnesses that can place lives in mortal danger. Principally, humanitarian support in such chaotic conditions centers on preventing death, giving assistance and safety measures for those compelled to desert their usual residences. Aid to refugees is usually depicted as a charitable mission to the displaced. People are generally forced into refugee status due to an armed struggle resulting from the abuse of power and political authority…