Except where this Convention contains more favourable provisions a Contracting State shall accord to refugees the same treatment as is ... Article 7 Personal status 1. The personal status of a refugee ...

As severe climate events increase, so does the number of climate refugees—people driven from their homes by extreme weather ...

They become refugees when they cross borders and seek safety in another country. They are displaced when they are forced to flee their homes, but remain within the borders of their native country. The ...

Asylum seekers say they are refugees and have fled their homes as refugees do, but their claim to refugee status is not yet ... The 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol help protect ...

This is a different status from being called a “refugee,” a category designated by the justice minister based on the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. Signed in 1951, the ...

Under the program, the government scrutinizes each application for refugee status according to the definition of refugees under the convention to determine whether the individual “has a well ...

Together, we will transform our grief into a force for change that will build a more just, equitable society that respects the dignity of all people,’ Omar Angel Perez, Faith in Action’s immigrant ...

An asylum-seeker can only obtain refugee status after passing a vetting ... we are not a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention relating to the refugees, they will continue to have few rights ...

The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees is urging the world to save it from an Israeli ban that would have ...

Michael O'Flaherty, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed his concerns in a letter published on Wednesday, over the situation of migrants and asylum seekers within the ...

New laws contravene the absolute inviolability of UN bodies and may warrant a binding opinion by the International Court of Justice or suspension from the General Assembly ...

In the case of UNRWA – the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees – Netanyahu would not get his ...