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The Geneva Convention provides five reasons for persecution on the basis of which refugee status is recognised. These are race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group and political opinion.
- More Christians are murdered in Nigeria than in any other country. Open Doors found that an estimated 5,678 people were killed in Nigeria from October 2019 to September 2020, making Nigeria the country where Christians endure the most fatal violence.
- COVID-19 has enabled religious persecution through relief discrimination, forced conversion, and as justification for increasing surveillance. Researchers from Open Doors found that COVID-19 relief discrimination against Christians occurred in Ethiopia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Vietnam, and the Middle East, among other places.
- Technology is making it easier for governments to control and suppress religious activities. China is the foremost example of an oppressive regime that utilizes advanced technology to manipulate its citizens' behavior -- including religious practice.
- North Korea has held the title of "world's worst persecutor of Christians" for 20 consecutive years. A tragic consistency over the last two decades is that North Korea remains the world's worst violator of religious freedom.
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 or political opinion or membership in a particular social group.
- Religious/National/Social/Racial/Political Persecution
- War
- Gender/sexual Orientation
- Hunger
- Climate Change
The most common reason people become refugees is persecution — which can take on many forms: religious, national, social, racial, or political. When it comes to religious refugees in the United States, the split between Christians and Muslims is quite even. According to Pew, 46% of refugees in 2016 who came to the US were Muslim and 44% Christian; ...
Most of history’s refugees have been the direct or indirect product of war. Currently, the largest group of refugees in the world are fleeing civil conflict in Syria, which has been raging since 2011 and has killed 400,000 Syrians and displaced 6.3 million internally. Another 5 million have left the country entirely. But before Syria, refugees fled...
This past June, France became the first country to accept a gay Chechen refugee— a monumental decision that had global reverberations. The UNHCR updated its guidelines to includerefugees for reasons of gender or sexual orientation in 2012. “It is widely documented that LGBTI individuals are the targets of killings, sexual and gender-based violence,...
It’s estimated that 20 million people in four North African and Middle Eastern countries — Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria, and Yemen — are facing extreme drought, and many of these individuals are becoming refugees, forced from their homelands in search of stable food sources. There are about 17 million displaced persons across the African continent...
It’s estimated that in the next 83 years, a stunning 13 million coastal dwellerscould be displaced by climate change, joining the teeming throngs of refugees and displaced people. Officially, climate change is not yet a valid reason for an asylum claim. In 2013, the first climate change refugee asylum case was shot down by the New Zealand High Cour...
There are many reasons why people around the globe seek to rebuild their lives in a different country. Some people leave home to get a job or an education. Others are forced to flee persecution or human rights violations such as torture.
Refugees are among the most vulnerable people in the world. The 1951 Refugee Convention, supplemented by its 1967 Protocol, help protect them. They are the cornerstone of refugee protection and the key legal documents that form the basis of UNHCR’s work.
Feb 1, 2002 · UNHCR may offer advice as part of its mandate to promote refugee law, protect refugees and supervise the implementation of the 1951 Refugee Convention. The agency advocates that governments adopt a rapid, flexible and liberal process, recognizing how difficult it often is to document persecution.
