In 1999 the ODP office in Bangkok was closed and the remaining open cases were transferred to the Refugee Resettlement Section at the U. S. Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

" Refugee cases typically only consider risk to life or risk of persecution.

Refugee and Migrant Justice also lobbied on behalf of cases both individually and collectively, and was concerned with monitoring public policy in the area of asylum.

It is separate from UNHCR, ( 1950 ), the UN Refugee Agency, which is the only other UN agency aiding refugees, dedicated to aiding all refugees in the world.

Refugee camps, which developed from tent cities to rows of concrete blockhouses to urban ghettos indistinguishable from their surroundings, house around one third of all registered Palestine refugees.

The World Refugee Survey 2008, published by the U. S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, estimates that 110, 600 Somali refugees lived in Yemen in 2007, which is a fraction of the estimated 700, 000-strong Somali nationals already living and working in Yemen.

The UNRRA was shut down in 1947, at which time it was taken over by the newly instituted International Refugee Organization.

The International Refugee Organization was a temporary organization of the United Nations ( UN ), which itself had been founded in 1945, with a mandate to largely finish the UNRRA's work of repatriating or resettling European refugees.

It succeeded the earlier International Refugee Organization and the even earlier United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ( which itself succeeded the League of Nations ' Commissions for Refugees ).

The goal of the Refugee Act was to create a uniform procedure with which to provide these opportunities to refugees.

Title IV of the Immigration and Nationality Act was amended here when the Act created the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is responsible for funding and administering federal programs for domestic resettlement and assistance to refugees.

In July 2006 the band had " British Refugee " re-released on a Korova Records compilation album, entitled North by Northwest, which was compiled by Paul Morley.

Selected on 27 April 1975, the installation served as one of four main U. S. Vietnamese Refugee Processing Centers operated by the Interagency Task Force for Indochina Refugees, where base personnel housed and processed more than 10, 000 Southeast Asian refugees, the first 374 of which arrived on board a Northwest Orient Boeing 747 on 4 May 1975.

It is also supported by the principles found in paragraph 171 of the Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status which was issued by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ).

Morris found evidence that, in fact, there had been expulsions, which he made public in 1988 in The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947 – 1949.

They joined an organisation called the Rwandan Patriotic Front ( RPF ), a refugee association which had been operating since 1979, first as the Rwandan Refugee Welfare Foundation, then as the Rwandan African National Union ( RANU ), before becoming the RPF in 1987.

It was replaced in 1947 by the International Refugee Organization ( IRO ), which in turn evolved into United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) in 1950.

In the same year, he was also appointed as chair of the Refugee Resettlement Advisory Council, which advises the Australian government on resettling refugees in Australia.

A participant in the Refugee Action Collective ( Victoria ) | Refugee Action Collective, Socialist Alternative took part in the 2002 protest at the Woomera Detention Centre in which several refugees, with the aid of demonstrators outside, tore down the fences of the facility and Woomera_Immigration_Reception_and_Processing_Centre # The Woomera Breakout | broke out.

When a Jewish family in Japan received an exit visa in that period, the Refugee Committee would provide the family with 5, 000 yen to deposit in a bank ( as allowed by law ) and receive US dollars ( or the currency of the country to which it planned to travel ) at the official rate — say, US $ 50.

That money was quickly and discreetly returned to the Refugee Committee where it was sold on the Black Market for the true yen / dollar exchange rate, which was vastly higher.

During this time, Human Rights First also helped craft the Refugee Act of 1980, which served as the legal basis for all asylum claims over the next 26 years.

Scottish Refugee Council States its vision as: “ a Scotland in which all people seeking refugee protection are welcome.

There are three main areas in which Scottish Refugee Council works to help refugees and people seeking asylum in Scotland.

The event, co-ordinated by Scottish Refugee Council, is the Scottish version of an annual UK wide programme of events which celebrates the contribution of refugees to the UK.

As Minister of Immigration, Coderre supervised the application of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, which came into effect on June 28, 2002.

Refugee camps were set up in Macedonia.

Refugee convoys were bombed while on the ice by the Soviet airforce, so only a small number of horses made it to safety.

Its UN functions were transferred to several UN agencies, including the International Refugee Organization and the World Health Organization.

According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, there were almost 96, 000 African refugees in Yemen in 2006, including more than 91, 000 Somalis.

The six core founders ( Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, International Save the Children Alliance, Jesuit Refugee Service, Quaker United Nations Office, and Terre des Hommes ) were later joined by the following organizations:

The main objectives of the act were to create a new definition of refugee based on the one created at the UN Convention and Protocol on the Status of Refugees, raise the limitation from 17, 400 to 50, 000 refugees admitted each fiscal year, provide emergency procedures for when that number exceeds 50, 000, and to establish the Office of U. S. Coordinator for Refugee Affairs and the Office of Refugee Resettlement.

The Spitfire Boys were the first Liverpool punk band to release a single (" British Refugee " c / w " Mein Kampf ").

Refugee Armenians in Hungary also took part in the wars of their new country against the Ottomans as early as the battle of Varna in 1444, when some Armenians were seen amongst the Christian forces.

" Nowhere ", " Surrender ", " Casa Dega " ( Demo ) and " Refugee " ( alternate take ) were mixed by Mike Campbell and Ryan Ulyate in late 2009 / early 2010, while " Casa Dega " and " It's Rainin ' Again " were the same versions featured on the Playback box set.

Two Palestinian demonstrators were also shot during the same demonstration in Al Maghazi Refugee Camp.

Two Palestinian demonstrators were also shot during the same demonstration in Al Maghazi Refugee Camp.

With the help of the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia ( later the Czech Refugee Trust Fund ), all members of the OKB were able to escape through Poland and Sweden.

Refugee camps were set up for Hindu Sindhis.

These comments were condemned by the Refugee Council and other bodies working in this field.

Born into a family where her parents, Randhir Kapoor and Babita, and elder sister Karisma were actors, Kapoor faced the media spotlight at a young age but did not make her acting debut until the 2000 film Refugee.

Most are refugee claimants whose refugee applications were rejected by the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.

The first offices in the United States were established within the Al Kifah Refugee Center in Brooklyn, and at the Islamic Center in Tucson, Arizona.

These were supplemented by irregular units with horse cavalry, four infantry battalions ( termed as the Saraf-e-khas, paigah, Arab and Refugee ) and a garrison battalion-all forming a total of 22, 000 men.

Briefly employed by the International Refugee Organization, Djuvara became involved with the body of Romanian exiles, the Romanian National Committee, and helped organize American-assisted drops of voluntary paratroopers in support of the Romanian anti-communist resistance ( most of whom were captured by the Securitate ).

Commenting on the information available to them in order to evaluate Zaoui's claim, the RSAA stated that they "... were surprised at how limited it was and the questionable nature of some of the contents " and that "... it does not provide evidence that he has committed, directed or participated in any act of violence or terrorism that would require his being excluded under Article 1F from the protection of the Refugee