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India was the venue for the single largest influx of refugees since the Second World War, when an estimated 10 million people crossed over from East Pakistan to India in 1971. The majority of refugees were in West Bengal, Tripura, Meghalaya and Assam. The majority of the refugees were repatriated after the war, with the UNHCR Dhaka office's ...
In September 2015, M.A.P published a report on "Refugee Protection in India: Access to Economic and Social Rights", which was fully funded by UNHCR India. [7]In 2015, M.A.P assisted a sitting Member of Parliament, Shashi Tharoor with the drafting of a domestic asylum law, which was introduced in the Indian Parliament as a private members Bill.
Tibetan refugee self-help center in Darjeeling, West Bengal. Since its independence in 1947, India has accepted various groups of refugees from neighbouring countries, including partition refugees from former British Indian territories that now constitute Pakistan and Bangladesh, Tibetan refugees that arrived in 1959, Chakma refugees from present day Bangladesh in early 1960s, other ...
An asylum seeker is a person who leaves their country of residence, enters another country, and makes in that other country a formal application for the right of asylum according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 14. [3] A person keeps the status of asylum seeker until the right of asylum application has concluded.
Thousands of asylum cases are still awaiting a final decision despite the Government insisting it has met a target to clear a backlog of claims. ... see them being asked to fill out the form ...
Third country resettlement or refugee resettlement is, according to the UNHCR, one of three durable solutions (voluntary repatriation and local integration being the other two) for refugees who fled their home country. Resettled refugees have the right to reside long-term or permanently in the country of resettlement and may also have the right ...
Prior to the 1951 convention, the League of Nations' Convention relating to the International Status of Refugees, of 28 October 1933, dealt with administrative measures such as the issuance of Nansen certificates, refoulement, legal questions, labour conditions, industrial accidents, welfare and relief, education, fiscal regime and exemption from reciprocity, and provided for the creation of ...
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