A refugee is a person who

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Article By- Dr.Sana Al-Zoubi,

“Every person who, owing to a well-founded fear of persecution on account of his race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to that fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; Or every person who does not have a nationality and is outside the country of his previous habitual residence as a result of such events and is unable, or does not want, because of that fear, to return to that country. “
There were 80 million forcibly displaced people worldwide at the end of 2019. Of these, 26 million were refugees, half of whom were under the age of 18 (20.4 million refugees under the mandate of UNHCR, 5.6 million Palestine refugees under the mandate of UNRWA). 45.7 million are internally displaced, 4.2 million asylum seekers, and 3.6 million Venezuelans are displaced abroad. There are millions of stateless people, who have been denied access to basic rights such as education, health care, employment and freedom of movement.
And the prospects for refugees are dwindling when it comes to hopes of any quick end to their plight. In the 1990s, approximately 1.5 million refugees were able to return home each year. Over the past decade, this number has decreased to about 385,000, which means that growth due to displacement is today a solution that outweighs many. open menu

The word “refugee” has historically been associated with protection, as the prevailing custom of refugee protection continued by the state to which he sought refuge, as it represents part of its reputation and prestige among states and perhaps its sovereignty in securing protection for those who seek refuge, and custom required not to extradite the asylum seeker and protection, Groups and states often clashed with each other because of political or non-political resort to them, and sometimes armed conflicts erupted between them and left their effects on the development of their relations with each other.

The origin of the word refugee refers to the sanctity of the principle of protection. The word “refuge” means the sacred place to which a person takes refuge in search of protection or immunity, and in the Arabic language we say a safe haven. It is often used as a shelter for a stranger seeking a rental

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The Syrian crisis was the worst humanitarian catastrophe the United Nations has faced since the Cold War, according to its estimates, especially as half of the Syrian population is threatened with displacement.
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On the World Refugee Day, people evoke a number of refugee cases at the global level, especially their humanitarian aspect on the one hand, and on the other hand, the failure of the international community, including the United Nations and a number of international and humanitarian bodies and organizations to provide the necessary mechanisms to protect refugees and defend their lives and rights in accordance with the laws International humanitarianism in time of war or peace.

Perhaps one of the most tragic cases of humanitarian asylum is the Palestinian refugee case, where the occupation not only confiscated the human right to his homeland and to self-determination, but also his right to return to his land by depriving him of a collective and individual right.
The tragedy of the Iraqi refugees was long and arduous, and lasted more than three decades. Their first migration was for political reasons, including a few thousand in the late seventies. During the Iran-Iraq war 1980-1988, tens of thousands were forced to emigrate and seek asylum because of the war, in addition to the displacement of thousands of them according to backward laws of nationality by returning to the abyssal “origins”. As well as the more than two million Afghan refugees, the Somali refugees due to the civil war, the Sudanese refugees due to armed conflicts and the deterioration of the political and economic conditions, the Rwandan refugees, and the displacements after the divisions of the former Yugoslavia, its armed conflicts and its terrible massacres, all of these are distinct, known and documented cases at the global level. The issue of refugee rights and international responsibility has been put on the table.

Perhaps the Syrian crisis was the worst humanitarian catastrophe the United Nations has faced since the Cold War, according to its estimates, especially that half of the Syrian population is threatened with displacement, and this came on the occasion of World Refugee Day. With the greetings of the human rights activist and official spokesperson for the refugees.

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