https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/statusofrefugees.aspx Convention relating to the Status of Refugees Adopted on 28 July 1951 by the United Nations Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Status of Refugees and Stateless Persons convened under General Assembly resolution 429 (V) of 14 December 1950 Entry into force: 22 April 1954, in accordance with article 43 Preamble The High Contracting Parties, […]
Rains Flood Refugee and Displaced People’s Camps
Syria and the neighbouring region has been experiencing low atmospheric pressure since Monday morning, with refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan- as well as that of the displaced inside Syria- flooding with rains, causing some of the tents to sink. The rains have led to torrents in hills and mountainous areas, sweeping away tents of […]
Syrian Refugees Exceed Four Million: Four Years of Violations
Syrian refugees have exceeded the four million mark for the first time since the beginning of the Syrian crisis in March 2011- according to the statistics of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)- making them the highest number of refugees in the world since the migration of 4.6 million Afghani’s from their country in […]
The Right to Education: Present and Future Violations
The right to education forms a fundamental axiom of the rights of children adopted by the International Law of Human Rights due to the far reaching effects this right has on the life and future of a child, as well as the effects it has on the society that the child lives in at large. […]
Resettlement of Syrian refugees: A Solution or an Escape from the Solution?
The idea of resettling Syrian refugees came to the fore during mid to late 2012, a year and a half after the Syrian uprisings began. The first type of resettlement for refugees came about through limited initiatives by some Western countries that worked with the UN high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) on unique cases which […]