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.

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).

Recognised refugees are entitled to the same social and economic rights as UK citizens. They have full access to medical treatment, housing, education, and employment. They are obliged to conform to the laws of the UK. Refugee integration projects may be funded by the Home Office Challenge fund. A list of the most current projects can be found at:

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.

the start of 2005, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported approximately 9.2 million refugees worldwide, while the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center estimated 25.3 million IDPs throughout the globe. More than one-third of all refugees, or 3.5 million individuals, are found in Africa. Africa also hosts 13 million IDPs, more than half of the world’s internally displaced population. of all refugees and IDPs are women and children.

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.

A: Refugees are placed through LIRS or one of the other national voluntary resettlement agencies through a network of local affiliate offices. Arriving families either join relatives already living in the area or are co-sponsored by a local congregation or organization. The affiliate works with the relatives or co-sponsoring group to coordinate initial resettlement services.

A: LIRS's network of resettlement affiliates and their suboffices span the country. Click here for a list.

Each refugee protection claim is decided individually on its own merits. So the number of Convention refugees or persons in need of protection accepted by the IRB in Canada varies from one year to another. In 2005, the IRB accepted more than 12,000 people as Convention refugees or persons in need of protection in Canada. The mandate of the Refugee Protection Division (RPD) of the IRB is to determine claims for refugee protection made by people in Canada.

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.

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

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.

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