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Article: United Nations: Chapter 3D. Refugees
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Chapter 3D. Refugees
According to the Statute of the Office of the United Nations
High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a refugee is a person who, owing
to a
well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of 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 such fear, unwilling
to
avail himself of the protection of that country.
The essential problems of refugees, and the necessary solutions
to them,
have been the same throughout history and around the world: refugees
need to
be fed, clothed and sheltered; they want to go back home if they can,
and ...