Refugees from C. A. R.

In the Report of the Technical Committee on Refugees ( Submitted to the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine in Lausanne on 7 September 1949 )- ( A / 1367 / Rev. 1 ), in paragraph 15, the estimate of the statistical expert, which the Committee believed to be as accurate as circumstances permitted, indicated that the refugees from Israel-controlled territory amounted to approximately 711, 000.

Refugees comprise 107, 803 people from Bhutan and 20, 153 Tibetan people.

* Sudan – Refugees in their own country: The Forced Relocation of Squatters and Displaced People from Khartoum, in Volume 4, Issue 10, of News from Africa Watch, 10 July 1992.

Prior to the establishment of UNHCR, Fridtjof Nansen was the League of Nations High Commissioner of the Nansen International Office for Refugees, from 1922.

Created in December 1949, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East ( UNRWA ) is a relief and human development agency, originally intended to provide jobs on public works projects and direct relief for 652, 000 Arabs who fled from Israel during the fighting that followed the end of the British mandate over Palestine.

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* 500 BC — Refugees from Teos resettle Abdera.

Category: Refugees from Nazi Germany in the Soviet Union

Refugees from southern Rus ' moved mostly to the northeast, into the forested region with poor soils between the upper Volga and the Oka Rivers.

The rise of Nazism led to such a severe increase in the number of refugees from Germany that in 1933 the League created a High Commission for Refugees Coming from Germany.

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 creation of the Refuge Act began with hearings by the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security from 1965 – 1968, which recommended that congress create a uniform system for refugees, but received little support.

Political prisoners were granted amnesty, discriminatory legislation was repealed, South Africa withdrew all its forces from Namibia, and some 42, 000 refugees returned safely and voluntarily under the auspices of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ).

Category: Refugees from Nazi Germany in the Soviet Union

Refugees from Belegost and Nogrod added to the population of Khazad-dûm, and its wealth was also enriched with the discovery of mithril, a magical and extremely valuable metal found only in its mines.

SD has referred to the recommendations from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) which state that the return of refugees should be the solution to refugee problems.

Refugees migrated to the county from Chihuahua as the fighting moved into northern Mexico.

During a farewell meeting for Lubbers as High Commissioner for Refugees he received from Acting High Commissioner Wendy Chamberlin the first annual UNHCR Achievement Award for exceptional services to UNHCR and for the world ’ s refugees.

In 1999, at the urging of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees ( UNHCR ), the United States government began preparations to resettle an estimated 12, 000 refugees from the Bantu minority ethnic group in Somalia to select cities throughout the United States.

Since I Corps was assigned to Fort Lewis in 1981, soldiers from its units have participated in Operation Just Cause in Panama, Desert Shield and Desert Storm during the Persian Gulf War, Operation Provide Comfort for Kurdish Refugees, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

Refugees from Europe broadened the Dominican Republic's tax base and added more whites to the predominately mixed-race nation.

Wek is a member of the U. S. Committee for Refugees ' Advisory Council and is helping to raise awareness about the situation in Sudan, as well as the plight of refugees worldwide.

Denim Air mainly targeted African, Asian and other willing markets, operating for United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees in Sudan and Central Africa, for the Norwegian Army in Afghanistan, for Veba Oil in Libya.

From 1984 to 2002, he worked mostly as a senior lawyer for the Office for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Somalia, Kenya, Thailand, Bangladesh, Switzerland, Austria, Poland and Ethiopia.

Refugees and antigovernment fighters in Tajikistan have crossed into Kyrgyzstan several times, even taking hostages.

Refugees described events that they believed to be chemical warfare attacks by low-flying aircraft or helicopters ; several of the reports were of a yellow, oily liquid that was dubbed " yellow rain ".

UNHCR's mandate has gradually been expanded to include protecting and providing humanitarian assistance to whom it describes as other persons " of concern ," including internally displaced persons ( IDPs ) who would fit the legal definition of a refugee under the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and 1967 Protocol, the 1969 Organization for African Unity Convention, or some other treaty if they left their country, but who presently remain in their country of origin.

Rinnan has received other awards, including the Medal of Honour from the King of Norway, the inaugural Tampa Award from the Australian organisation Rural Australians for Refugees, the AFRAS Gold Medal from the Association for Rescue at Sea and he was named Captain of the Year 2001 by the Nautical Institute and shipping journal Lloyds List.

Refugees from other areas rushed into Saint-Pierre.

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees estimated in March 1998 that its population ( estimated at 40, 000 ) was around 24 % Serb, 59 % Albanian and 17 % from other national communities.

Refugees from this defeat were reorganized as the Éothéod on the other side of Mirkwood in the lower Vales of Anduin, under the leadership of Marwhini, son of Marhari.

Refugees were not allowed to return to their homes and many of the remaining Croats and other nationalities left in the RSK were expelled or killed in the following months.

* Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon, Palahniuk's other non-fiction work.

They flee to the Old Kingdom to attempt to save the lives of the Southerling Refugees from the other side of the Wall.

He was twice offered the job of UN High Commissioner for Refugees by Kofi Annan, a fact, he says, that he has never disclosed publicly before, but he declined both times due to other commitments.

* Refugees and International Law Forum: Papers Documents and other resources related to refugee and human rights law.

Under the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a person has the right to cross national borders if they are seeking asylum from political repression or various other forms of persecution.

Refugees must traverse over mountains, deserts and other unfriendly terrains and families are frequently separated during the journey in the underground.

As John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland, a British diplomat in Berlin, reported on 6 April 1848, " great excesses had been committed by armed bands of Poles, headed by some of the Nobles and Refugees, who have pillaged and set fire to country seats and farm houses and rendered themselves guilty of other depredations which the Government will endeavour to repress by moveable columns of Troops ".

Survivors: Cambodian Refugees in the United States written by Sucheng Chan, is a multidisciplinary study of Khmer American, drawing on interviews with community leaders, government officials, and other staff members in community agencies as well as common Khmer American to capture the perspectives of Cambodian Americans from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds.

In May 1982, Noko was called from the University of Botswana to join the LWF Department for World Service ( DWS ) where he worked for refugee services related to the churches, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Organization of African Unity and other organizations.

Some other examples are: the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS ( UNAIDS ), the International Labour Organization ( ILO ), the International Organization for Migration ( IMO ), the United Nations Educational and Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ), the United Nations Children's Fund ( UNICEF ), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( FAO ), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) and the United Nations Environment Program ( UNEP ),