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Asylum from persecution

Refugees are people who have been forced to leave their country in Over the past two decades,
order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. They face the global population of
dangerous situations as they have to cross national borders to seek forcibly displaced people has
safety in nearby countries. Refugees are protected by international grown substantially–from
law, and specifically by the 1951 Refugee Convention. On the other 33.9 million in 1997 to 65.6
hand, asylum seekers are refugees whose claim has not been million in 2016–and it still
evaluated. These people apply for asylum since returning to their remains high. Generally, the
country would lead to persecution because of their race, religion, refugee population under
nationality or political beliefs. On average, about 1 million people UNHCR’s control increased
seek asylum every year. by 65% over the past few
years. Most of this increase
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was noted between 2012
(UNHCR) was created in 1950 due to the World War II to help and 2015, as a result of the
millions of Europeans who had fled or lost their homes. UNHCR is a Syrian conflict and the
global organisation devoted to saving people, protecting human conflicts in Iraq and Yemen,
rights and building a better future for refugees, displaced or as well as in Burundi, the
stateless people. Soon after UNHCR’s creation, in 1956, during the Central African Republic, the
Hungarian Revolution, 200 thousand people fled to neighbouring Democratic Republic of the
Austria. Recognising the Hungarians as refugees, UNHCR led Congo, South Sudan and
efforts to resettle them. During the 1960s, the decolonisation of Sudan. In 2015 and 2016,
Africa produced the first of the continent's refugee crises. UNHCR many people risked their
helped people relocating in Asia and Latin America over the lives to cross the
st
following two decades. At the beginning of the 21 century, UNHCR Mediterranean Sea to look
helped with major refugee crises in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. for safety and protection.

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