RREFUGEE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Refugee in the 21st Century

Contents

REPORT OVERVIEW3

REVIEW3

REFUGEE IN THE 21ST CENTURY4

ACTIVE BODIES11

Foreign Bodies in International Refugee Law11

CANADA AND REFUGEE13

CLIMATE CHANGE CONTRIBUTE TO THE REFUGEE PROBLEM18

Climate Change Displacement19

REFUGEE AND 21ST CENTURY20

CONCLUSION22

Report Overview

This report tells about the history of refugee and what kind of laws has been formulated in the past few years. This report also states that how refugee started this journey and what are the factors influencing the trend of refugee. Last part of the report is states about the immigration and refugee policy in Canada.

Review

Under the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugee from 1951, a refugee is a one-by-one who (according to the prescribed delineation in piece 1A of this Convention), "owing to a well-founded concern of being persecuted for determinants of hurry, conviction, nationality, constituents of a exact communal assembly, or political mind-set, is out-of-doors the homeland of his nationality, and is incapable to or, be obliged to such concern, is reluctant to avail himself of the protection of that country". The idea of a refugee was magnified by the Convention's 1967 Protocol and by localized seminars in Africa and Latin America to encompass persons who had got away conflict or other aggression in their house country.

Refugee in the 21st Century

History of Refugee

The Origins of the phrase 'refugee' can be traced to the 17th 100 years, all through the 1648 agreement of Westphalia, through which the concept of a sovereign state was born. It was at this time, that populations became ascribed to recently allotted territories. In 1685, after the Edict of Fontainebleau outlawed Protestantism, hundreds of thousands of Huguenots Protestants got away France out of concern of devout prosecution, considering the first demonstration of refugee.

At the start of the 20th Century the natural environment of confrontation had changed, with the disintegration of vintage Empires and the boost of the territory state. The first worldwide coordination on refugee undertakings was by the League of Nations' High Commission for Refugee in 1920, administered by Fridtjof Nansen, which sought to help over a million individuals getting away the Russian Revolution and the subsequent Civil Wars.

During World War II, the scale of the refugee pressing place amplified to outstanding numbers, restoring some 55 million people. In 1943, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) were believed to provide assist to countries liberated from axis powers. In 1949, the UNRRA was disintegrated and its occupations were bestowed upon the International RRefugee Organization (IRO), which was founded in 1945. (Akiwumi, 1998, 229)

On December 14th, 1950 the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR) was taken up by the United Nations General Assembly. Its mandate searches for to 'protect and support refugee at the demand of a government or the UN itself and assists in their voluntary repatriation, localized integration or resettlement to a third country'.

Asylum grade and refugee grade are almost related. Their foremost distinction lies in where an individual anxieties for asylum or refugee status. Applicants requiring refugee grade organise so out-of-doors the ...