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The decision enables the over 100,000 refugee status petitions to begin to be processed for asylum in Brazil. [ 5 ] As of 6 December 2019, the decision by Brazil’s National Committee for Refugees (CONARE) on Thursday to accept asylum-seekers on a prima facie basis, gave immediate relief to around 21,000 Venezuelans, waiting for applications ...
Despite the fact that Brazil was considered a safe haven for neighboring refugees and immigrants, xenophobic violence has erupted. Brazil received up to 3000 Syrian refugees becoming the largest receiver of such in Latin America. [92] However, xenophobic and islamophobic attacks were reported against Syrian refugees and Muslims in general. [92]
The Registro Nacional de Estrangeiros (RNE, National Registry of Foreigners), known since 2018 as Registro Nacional Migratório (RNM, National Migratory Registry) due to the New Immigration Law (No. 13445) enacted on May 24th, 2017 by Brazilian former ex-president Michel Temer, is, next to the Registro Diplomático (RD, Diplomatic Registry), [1 ...
Bangladeshi immigration to Brazil is a new trend, as the South American country has no tradition of receiving the Bengali people. [2] Most of Bangladeshi immigrants to Brazil ask for political asylum and protection from the Brazilian government . [ 3 ]
An asylum seeker is a person who leaves their country of residence, enters another country, and makes in that other country a formal application for the right of asylum according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 14. [3] A person keeps the status of asylum seeker until the right of asylum application has concluded.
Humanitarian visas are visas granted by some countries in order to fulfill their international obligation to protect refugees from persecution. The criteria in the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees are often used in assessing whether or not there is a legitimate claim for protection.
Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Affairs plans to seek explanations from the U.S. government over the "degrading treatment" of Brazilians on a deportation flight, the ministry wrote on X on Saturday ...
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 ...