ANALYSIS OF REFUGEE LAWS WITH REFERENCE TO INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS
AUTHOR – SHASHWAT VIKRAM SINGH, STUDENT AT AMITY LAW SCHOOL, AMITY UNIVERSITY, LUCKNOW
BEST CITATION – SHASHWAT VIKRAM SINGH, ANALYSIS OF REFUGEE LAWS WITH REFERENCE TO INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS, INDIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL REVIEW (IJLR), 4 (2) OF 2024, PG. 1540-1548, APIS – 3920 – 0001 & ISSN – 2583-2344
Refugee problem is a global problem. A continuous stream of humanitarian crisis has highlighted the plight of victims, also the threat, that large-scale population movements pose to regional security & stability. Millions of people are forced to flee or to leave their homes or places of residence. Many of these people cross international borders leaving their home country and become asylum seekers while others remain within their country but away from their habitual place or residence and become known as internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). Especially since WWI, the refugee situation has continued unabated and the number of refugees has increased at an alarming rate. The annual report of (for year 2008) the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) indicates that there are 42 million people who are uprooted in the World today.[1] Amongst this staggering total of people of concern to the UNHCR are some 15.2 million refugees including 872,000 asylum seekers with pending cases.[2] UNHCR further estimates that in 2008 some 839,000 individual applications were submitted for refugee status and that 9% of those claims were made at UNHCR offices.[3]
[1] UNHCR 2008 Global Trends : Refugees, Asylum seekers, Returnees, Internally Displaced and Stateless Persons, 16 June, 2009, p. 2, “2008 in Review – Statistics at a Glance”, www.unhcr.org/4a375c426.pdf.(accessed August 10, 2009) UNHCR.
[2] Ibid. Of the 15.2 million fall under the UNHCR’s mandate and some 4.7 million Palestinian refugees are the responsibility of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
[3] UNHCR 2008 Globl Trends, op. cit. Of the 15.2 million fall under the UNHCR’s mandate and some 4.7 million Palestinian refugees are the responsibility of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).