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UNHCR's mandate has gradually been expanded to include protecting and providing humanitarian assistance to whom it describes as other persons "of concern", including internally displaced persons (IDPs) who would fit the legal definition of a refugee under the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and 1967 Protocol ...
Of these, 5.5 million were Palestinian refugees, which are not under UNHCR but under UNRWA’s mandate. Since 2007, the refugee estimates include not only refugees per the narrow 1951 UN definition, but also people in refugee-like situations, so figures prior to 2007 are not fully comparable.
The UNHCR document provides the following guidance regarding the interpretation of the protected characteristic approach: A particular social group is a group of persons who share a common characteristic other than their risk of being persecuted, or who are perceived as a group by society.
In 2004, former Israeli ambassador to the UN Dore Gold published a book called Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos.The book argued that the organization’s approach to issues like genocide and terrorism showed a lack of consistent moral clarity, which occurred between the moral clarity of its founding period and the present day. [1]
The UNHCR is called upon to provide international protection to refugees falling within its competence. [13] The Protocol defined refugee to mean any person within the 1951 Convention definition as if the words "As a result of events occurring before 1 January 1951 and ..." were omitted.
Forced displacement (also forced migration or forced relocation) is an involuntary or coerced movement of a person or people away from their home or home region.The UNHCR defines 'forced displacement' as follows: displaced "as a result of persecution, conflict, generalized violence or human rights violations".
Richard Dreyfuss' controversial remarks at a "Jaws" screening in Massachusetts on Saturday have prompted the venue that hosted the event to apologize about the Oscar winner's "distressing and ...
UNHCR tents at a refugee camp following episodes of xenophobic violence and rioting in South Africa, 2008. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was established on 14 December 1950.