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In some refugee camps, the WFP food ration card is also used as a form of ID. States that have signed the 1951 Refugee Convention have to provide refugees access to identification certificates, which can be either a refugee travel document , according to Article 28 of the convention, or another form of identity documents, according to Article 27.
The majority of refugees were in West Bengal, Tripura, Meghalaya and Assam. The majority of the refugees were repatriated after the war, with the UNHCR Dhaka office's support. UNHCR has been allowed to operate in India since 1981, even though India has not signed the 1951 Refugee Status Convention or the 1967 Refugee Status Protocol. [5] [6]
The UNHCR's Mid-Year Trends report of June 2015 (based on information for mid-2015 or latest available information up to that date) reported an "unprecedented" 57,959,702 individuals falling under its mandate (for reference, on 1 January 2007, 21,018,589 people – or less than half of the number in 2015 – fell under the mandate of the UNHCR).
Prior to the 1951 convention, the League of Nations' Convention relating to the International Status of Refugees, of 28 October 1933, dealt with administrative measures such as the issuance of Nansen certificates, refoulement, legal questions, labour conditions, industrial accidents, welfare and relief, education, fiscal regime and exemption from reciprocity, and provided for the creation of ...
Physical safety and legal rights are at risk in country of asylum; Past experience of violence and torture; Significant medical needs that cannot be provided for in country of asylum; Sex/gender based risks in country of asylum; Children and adolescents are at risk in country of asylum; Resettlement is the only way of reuniting a family
Immigration activist Alejandra Oliva on the art (and pain) of filling out an application for asylum Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune August 7, 2023 at 6:00 AM
The latest figures showed that 5,548 Syrians applied for asylum in the UK in the year to September 2024 – the highest number for any 12-month period since current data began in 2001.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), refugees are displaced persons who, "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 his nationality, and is unable to, or, owing to such ...