Today is World Refugee Day: June 20th
Published June 20, 2008 @ 06:47AM PT
This Friday, June 20th, is World Refugee Day. This year, the theme is “protection.” But who is a refugee? And why do they need protection? 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 his or her nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of that country or return there because there is fear of persecution.” Read more.
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