Depending on what is happening around the world, refugees come from different places. At the moment, Sojourn House is mostly home to refugees from Africa, Latin America and the Far East.

The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (and its 1967 Protocol), to which Australia is a signatory, defines a refugee as: Any person who owing to a well founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his/her nationality and is unable, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself/herself of the protection of that country. See similar questions...

any given time, there are 20 million refugees worldwide. Approximately 75,000 refugees are admitted to the United States yearly. Of that number, Colorado receives 950 or fewer. (To gain a bit of perspective, Colorado's total population is 4,301,261 according to the April 2000 census). See similar questions...

this time, the majority of refugees in the CRESL program are from Bosnia, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Iraq, Iran, Burma, Vietnam, Russia, and Ukraine. In the past, Colorado has also resettled refugees from Zaire, Haiti, Cuba, Cambodia, Laos, republics of the former Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania. Any change in world events or crises will determine the future nationalities of refugees to be resettled in the United States and Colorado. See similar questions...

KHRP's work is aimed at promoting and protecting human rights abuse within the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria and elsewhere. However, a very high proportion of the world's refugees and asylum seekers derive from these countries due to the widespread human rights abuses there. As a consequence, KHRP is also recognised as a leading authority on refugees and asylum seekers across the world, but particularly in the UK and Europe. See similar questions...

Only 22,000 Jews remain today in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. In 1948, there were 856,000 Jews living in these 9 countries. Israel absorbed these refugees at a cost of over $11 billion. Note that as of 1950, the Palestinians stated their refugee numbers at 850,000. See similar questions...

Refugees have fled their country and have crossed an international border recognized by the UN. Displaced people are often referred to as internally displaced persons (IDPs). IDPs have been forced to move to another location within their country of residence. "Refugee" and "IDP" are legal definitions defined by the United Nations. IERHB works with health issues related to both refugees and IDPs See similar questions...

Shelters only offer short term housing (three to six weeks), though many refugees are unable to move into permanent housing within six weeks of their entry into Canada. See similar questions...

Besides the convenience of our Broomfield Colorado location, we are all Nurses working in a clean professional clinic offering fair competitive prices for the latest medical equipment. See similar questions...

How should newsrooms decide which words are off limits? Is it only when someone in a position of power complains? How many angry readers, viewers or listeners does it take? If editors and news managers defer to such demands, where do they draw the line on future decisions about language?> Read more I am just returning from South Mississippi, covering the worst of Hurricane Katrina at the point where her full force slammed the coast directly over Biloxi and Gulfport. See similar questions...

When President Bush and Jesse Jackson come down on the same side of an argument, it's tempting to conclude that the matter is settled. If so, then the brief debate in newsrooms over the word "refugee" might end just as a scramble among dictionary editors begins. Until now, no dictionary I can find excludes Americans from the definition of "refugee," and none indicates that use of the word for American citizens reflects racism. See similar questions...

The majority of countries in the World have signed up to the 1951 United Nations Convention for Refugees. This means that any person has a legal right to come to that country and claim asylum. Powering everything with solar energy isn't possible just yet, since the UK doesn't produce enough sunlight to do this. The basic principles of the Indian Foreign Policy were sown at the time of the freedom struggle for Indian independence. See similar questions...

Non-citizen single adults with refugee status who have been in the United States less than eight months may be eligible. Immigrant families with children up to age 19 if they are a full-time high school student may qualify for MFIP or other programs. See similar questions...

Refugees do have legal rights protected by international law. The 1951 Refugee Convention defines the rights of refugees. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is the UN agency responsible for refugee protection. See similar questions...

the same time that the Palestinians are calling for a state of their own, they also demand a "right to return" to land inside the State of Israel's pre-June 1967 lines. However, no such right exists under general international law, the relevant UN resolutions or the agreements between Israel and its Arab neighbors. See similar questions...

Refugees arrive in Canada for a number of reasons. Some have experienced torture at the hands of their government for their political views. Others are fleeing a home torn by war. Refugees often come with trauma, either from personal experience or from what they have witnessed around them. Young women arrive, having become pregnant from a rape by warring soldiers. Young men arrive malnourished and having been beaten during a stay in prison without having committee a crime. See similar questions...

According to UNHCR, there were about 9.9 million refugees and 12.8 million IDPs worldwide at the end of 2006 (2006 Global Trends report, UNHCR). The U.S. Committee for Refugees estimates that there were more than 13.9 million refugees and asylum seekers worldwide at the end of 2006 (World Refugee Survey 2007, US Committee for Refugees). See similar questions...

I hear you can live like a king (or queen) down there for not much american money. I hear Brazil is nice. Argentina as well. I would be down with joining the Venezuelan military, since elitists are trying to take it over. See similar questions...