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Vietnamese Boy Scouts at the Philippine First Asylum Center in Palawan (1990). Opened in 1980, the Philippine Refugee Processing Center (PRPC) prepared Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian refugees, including ethnic minorities (such as the Chinese) from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, for immigration to a variety of resettlement nations such as Canada, Norway, Australia, France, and primarily the ...
The International Refugee Organization: a specialized agency of the United Nations, its history and work, 1946–1952 (Oxford UP, 1956. 1956) online; Holborn, Louise W. Philip Chartrand, and Rita Chartrand. Refugees, a problem of our time: the work of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 1951-1972 (Scarecrow Press, 1975).
Filipino refugees are persons originating from the country of the Philippines.Following the Moro conflict and subsequent major military operation in the islands of Mindanao during the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos in 1970s, [8] thousands of Filipinos mainly from the Moro ancestry have sought refuge in neighbouring countries of Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei, with majority of ...
Under international law, a refugee is a person who is outside their country of nationality or habitual residence; has a well-founded fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion; and is unable or unwilling to avail themself of the protection of that country, or to return there, for fear of persecution.
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. It defines a refugee as a person who:
ICMC kept growing in the 1960s, expanding its activities through offices in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina and Chile.By the early 1970s, the migration phenomenon had become more complex and international: the end of the war in Vietnam, the attempted genocide in Cambodia and violent events elsewhere caused massive and unprecedented migration flows.
Help Refugees put out a message asking for doctors to go there and offering to pay for flights and accommodation if they could stay for more than a week. They managed to fund 30 doctors. [2] By June 2016, Help Refugees was supporting 26 projects across Europe. [2] Since 2015, Help Refugees has helped more than 722,500 people across the world. [3]
The Global Refugee-Led Network work to make sure that United Nations and other global decision makers are well informed by the voices of refugees. [2]GPN is organized around six global regions: Africa, Middle East and North Africa, South America, North America, Asia Pacific, and Europe. [2]