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Refugee Rights

Refugees arrive in Travnik, central Bosnia, during the war, 1993. Photo by Mikhail Evstafiev

According to the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a 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 their nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail him/herself of the protection of that country". Source: Wikipedia

Please add to this list of ways to promote refugee rights.

Get the facts

• Inform yourself and others (Human Rights Watch)

Help women refugees

• Donate today for this cause (Center for Gender and Refugee Studies)