Argumentative Essay On Refugees
One of the major problems and one of the most complicated issues currently in the world is the problem of world’s refugees and internally displaced people. The United Nations is still searching for a more effective and efficient ways to assist and protect refugees and internally displaced people.
This problem is a global problem that affects the whole world. Some countries, however, call for increased levels of cooperation and coordination among relief agencies, other countries point to gaps in international legislation and appeal for further standard-setting in this area. Any solution would have to be addressed from all aspects.
No one likes to a be a refugee, and no one really chooses to be a refugee. Many refugees think that being a refugee …show more content…
In 1951, when the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was established, around 1 million refugees were estimated. Since then the number has grown to be around 17.5 million refugees. Around 2.5 million more refugees are cared for by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), and over 25 million displaced persons too.
In 1951 most of the refugees were European. The majority of today's refugees are from Africa and Asia. Current refugee movements, unlike those of the past, increasingly take the form of mass exoduses rather than individual flights. Eighty per cent of today's refugees are women and children.
The causes of exodus have also multiplied and now include natural or ecological disasters and extreme poverty. As a result, many of today's refugees do not fit the definition contained in the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. This refers to victims of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.
There are currently some 43 million uprooted victims of conflict and persecution worldwide. More than 15 million of them are refugees who have fled their countries while another 27 million are people who remain displaced by conflict inside their own homelands -- so-called “internally displaced
This problem is a global problem that affects the whole world. Some countries, however, call for increased levels of cooperation and coordination among relief agencies, other countries point to gaps in international legislation and appeal for further standard-setting in this area. Any solution would have to be addressed from all aspects.
No one likes to a be a refugee, and no one really chooses to be a refugee. Many refugees think that being a refugee …show more content…
In 1951, when the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was established, around 1 million refugees were estimated. Since then the number has grown to be around 17.5 million refugees. Around 2.5 million more refugees are cared for by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), and over 25 million displaced persons too.
In 1951 most of the refugees were European. The majority of today's refugees are from Africa and Asia. Current refugee movements, unlike those of the past, increasingly take the form of mass exoduses rather than individual flights. Eighty per cent of today's refugees are women and children.
The causes of exodus have also multiplied and now include natural or ecological disasters and extreme poverty. As a result, many of today's refugees do not fit the definition contained in the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. This refers to victims of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.
There are currently some 43 million uprooted victims of conflict and persecution worldwide. More than 15 million of them are refugees who have fled their countries while another 27 million are people who remain displaced by conflict inside their own homelands -- so-called “internally displaced