REFUGEES

Refugee is a person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted 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 to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country, according to United Nations.

Refugee

REFUGEES STATUS

Refugees

War Refugees

Political Refugees

Weather Refugees

Religious Refugees

Weather Refugees

An asylum seeker is someone who is seeking the refugee status. Asylum-Seeker

REFUGEES STATUS

An Internally Displaced Person (IDP) is essentially a refugee inside their own country. Ex: A certain city is unsafe for a certain religion, so those citizens move elsewhere within the same country.

Internally Displaced Person

(IDP)

REFUGEES STATUS

League of Nations' Nansen International Office for RefugeesOffice of the High Commissioner for Refugees under the

Protection of the LeagueUnited Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration International Refugee OrganizationUnited Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

AGENCIES

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

UNHCR

AGENCIES

125 countries

Staff: more than 7,500 people

More than 33,9 million people

The numbers

AGENCIESUNHCR

REFUGEE CAMPS

A refugee camp is a temporary settlement built to receive refugees, provisionally. Although some refugee camps have existed for decades.

Camps in the east of Chad, such as Breidjing Camp, host approximately 250,000 refugees from Darfur, a region in Sudan, since 2002.

REFUGEE CAMPS

Breidjing Camp

How could the international community improve the difficult

situation of refugees?

IT’S TIME TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE