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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 ...
A certificate of identity issued to a refugee is also referred to as a 1951 Convention travel document (also known as a refugee travel document or a Geneva passport), in reference to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. 145 countries are parties to the 1951 Convention and 146 countries are parties to the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees.
According to a population census in 1950, around 12.5 million refugees and exiles from the eastern territories formerly occupied by the Nazi regime fled after the end of the Second World War, to the Allied [excluding Russia?] occupation zones of Germany and Berlin. 3 million refugees came to Germany from Czechoslovakia, 1.4 million from Poland, roughly 300,000 from the former Free City of ...
Compulsory at the age of 16, but can be issued at 14 and has to be carried at all times after turning 18. It is issued only to Montenegrin citizens with permanent residence in Montenegro. While it is the most often used official identification document, three other hold the same status — Passport, Driver's licence and Refugee ID card.
Migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq are housed within a refugee shelter in Starstedt, Germany while their asylum applications are being processed. A look at life inside a German refugee shelter
The right of asylum for victims of political persecution is a basic right stipulated in the Constitution of Germany.In a wider sense, the right of asylum recognises the definition of 'refugee' as established in the 1951 Refugee Convention and is understood to protect asylum seekers from deportation and grant them certain protections under the law.
The Federal Law on Refugees and Exiles (German: Gesetz über die Angelegenheiten der Vertriebenen und Flüchtlinge, lit. 'Law on the affairs of the expellees and refugees'; abbr. Bundesvertriebenengesetz, BVFG) is a federal law passed by the Federal Republic of Germany on 19 May 1953 to regulate the legal situation of ethnic German refugees and expellees who fled or were expelled after World ...
Marienfelde refugee camp, July 1958 Marienfelde refugee camp, July 1961 Contemporary view of the memorial's entrance. Marienfelde refugee transit camp (German: Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde) was one of three camps [1] operated by West Germany and West Berlin during the Cold War for dealing with the great waves of immigration from East Germany, especially between 1950 and 1961.