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The first DPs brought to the US under the Act arrived in New York City on October 30, 1948, crossing from Bremerhaven, Germany on the Army transport ship General Black. The ship carried 813 displaced persons from eleven nations, including 388 Poles, 168 Lithuanians, 53 Czechoslovaks, 32 Latvians, 17 Ukrainians and 6 Hungarians.
(ii) any Act of a Legislature subject to the condition that such Act is reproduced or published together with any commentary thereon or any other original matter; (iii) the report of any committee, commission, council, board or other like body appointed by the government if such report has been laid on the Table of the Legislature, unless the ...
Before World War II, roughly 500,000 German-speaking people (mostly Danube Swabians) lived in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. [103] [196] Most fled during the war or emigrated after 1950 thanks to the Displaced Persons Act of 1948; some were able to emigrate to the United States. During the final months of World War II a majority of the ethnic ...
This is a category of articles concerning acts of Parliament (laws enacted by the Parliament of India in 1948). For more general discussion of Indian legal topics, see Category:Law of India and its other subcategories.
However, a displaced person otherwise legally entitled to refugee status may never apply for asylum, or may not be allowed to apply in the country they fled to and thus may not have official asylum seeker status. Once a displaced person is granted refugee status they enjoy certain rights as agreed in the 1951 Refugee convention. Not all ...
The population of India was counted as 361,088,090 (1000:946 male:female) [4] Total population increased by 42,427,510, 13.31% more than the 318,660,580 people counted during the 1941 census. [5] No census was done for Jammu and Kashmir in 1951 and its figures were interpolated from 1941 and 1961 state census. [ 6 ]
Numerous families were displaced and many lost their lives in the partition. [4] It aims to remind Indians the need to remove social divisions, disharmony and to further strengthen the spirit of oneness, social harmony and human empowerment. [5] The partition had left 10 to 20 million people displaced and left 200,000 to 2 million dead.
After World War II, there were countless displaced people that were in need of assistance.During the Holocaust the United States accepted around 250,000 refugees; however, comparatively, other countries such as Britain, Netherlands and France accepted more refugees. [1]