Disadvantages Of Refugee Protection

Every year, thousands of people seek refuge in Australia after being forced to flee their homes. Under the UN 1951 Refugee convention, countries are obliged to protect refugees and basic human rights must be upheld. However, Australia is violating these laws. As of August 2013, a report by the Australian Human Rights

The article, “Refugees: Who, Where, and Why” by Catherine Gevert is about different refugees in the world, where they are from and why they became refugees in the first place. The first concept the author talked about was, around the world, many refugees have had to flee, to escape to safety after being mistreated in their own country. Refugees are protected by law and given basic civil rights when going to different countries. Another key point she talks about is where these people are and in the article shows us that refugee camps are located throughout the world, but are not the best living conditions. Many refugees go here for asylum. Furthermore, some reasons people can become refugees are because of, war and “ethnic cleansing”, also known

A determination of convention refugee status is made by an immigration officer or tribunal, based on several factors under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (“the Act”).

Human rights can be summarized as the activities and freedoms that all human beings are entitled to enjoy and only by virtue of their humanity. These conditions are generally guaranteed in the constitution of the land. They are widely felt in the area as they are divided and not limited to political, social economic and cultural rights. Some of the main principles of human rights include the fact that they are inherent, inalienable and indivisible as well. In this relation, human rights can never be taken away from an individual whereby the enjoyment of one right should not infringe the enjoyment of other. They must all be respected and maintained.

Previously, many researchers noticed large amounts of immigrants in psychiatric hospitals, causing them to do the first study on refugees to be conducted in 1936. Researchers have came up with the Five main phases a refugee experiences: Pre contact: Realizing something is wrong in their country and conflict might occur. 2) Contact: The refugee realizing war, or a change in their country leadership is happening. 3) Conflict: When solders or armed people are romaine the country forcing people to leave their homes and lives behind. 4) Crises: the crises happens when their starts to be physical torture and a mass migration of people fleeing their country to migrate somewhere safe. During the crises their is multiple mass murders, torture and even rape. Lastly, 5) Adaption: When the refugee group has relocated to a safe country and is trying to

According to UNHCR, a refugee is someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war, or violence. A refugee has a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group. Most likely, they cannot return home or are afraid to do so. War and ethnic, tribal and religious violence are leading causes of refugees fleeing their countries. When people flee their own country, and seek sanctuary in another country, they apply for asylum – the right to be recognized as a refugee and receive legal protection and material assistance. An asylum seeker must demonstrate that his or her fear of persecution in his or her home country is

The universal declaration of human rights – article 14 states that everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. Human rights are universal and must be obeyed in all countries. They are freedoms and protections that everyone is entitled to.

Human rights are entitlements inherent to all human beings and they apply to everyone regardless of sex, religion, ethnic origin or any other status.

What is a Right? Is it an inalienable individual moral or legal code, a fundamentally collective moral or legal code, or could it be, that a right is the sovereignty to act without the permission of others and, as such, doesn’t it carry the concept that by doing so you may not infringe on another’s sovereignty? These questions reflect the conflict societies; in current years, face in respects to Human Rights. This is not to say, that societies are not able to overcome these issues, and that civilisations; current and ancient, have produced documents that have defied the impression that human rights are a new entity.

(BBC History) They laid down the basis of seeking asylum in article 14, where it was stated that ‘everyone has a right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution’. (Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 (Paris) a 14). This then continued onto the 1951 Refugee convention in Geneva, where 147 countries signed the agreement. In this convention they outlined:

Refugees are innocent human beings who have been forced to escape their homes. As they face mental, physical and emotional trauma, they face and confront astounding obstacles during their escape from their corrupted country.

One of the basic rights that is established is the right to international protection when people are fleeing from serious harm in their country. This right is provided through national asylum systems. It is made sure that no advantages are taken of these systems through common minimum standards and procedures for asylum throughout Europe. These determine the process one needs to go through in order to obtain asylum and the requirements that need to fulfilled in order to be granted asylum.

A refugee, as defined by the 1951 Refugee convention, is an individual who “owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, and is unable to, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country” (Oregon Department of Human Services, n.d.). Moreover, in some countries, the home government may also be persecuting the individual. Each year, the U.S. government allows certain numbers and categories of refugees to immigrate into the U.S. through the Department of Homeland Security, Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services. Under the National Refugee Program, the U.S. may also grant asylum to selected immigrant groups who are then

In this policy paper, I will be focusing on refugees and the laws, policies, and programs that affect them. As I analyze these policies I will compare policies from various countries, that have been created to achieve similar goals. Many countries accept refugees and have adopted and/or created laws to regulate them. The three countries that I will be analyzing are the United States of America, Germany, and Turkey. These three countries are unique in their characteristics and geographic locations but all face the same risks and circumstances as it relates to refugees.

Human rights is defined as the rights as freedom from unlawful imprisonment, torture, and execution and regarded as belonging fundamentally to all persons. Another definition for