Unit 3 - Human Rights and Refugees Flashcards
A legal guarantee that exempts a person or group of persons from liability for criminal or political offenses. If respected and properly applied, an amnesty can help promote the voluntary repatriation of refugees.
Amnesty
The grant, by a State, of protection on its territory to persons outside their country of nationality or habitual residence, who are fleeing persecution or serious harm or for other reasons.
Asylum
Any work performed by a child which deprives them of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to their physical and mental development.
Child labor
Person displaced in the context of disasters and climate change.
Climate refugee
The country that an asylum-seeker, refugee or migrant moves through (legally or irregularly) during their journey to a country of destination or back to their country of origin or habitual residence
Country of transit
Coerced physical removal of a person to their country of origin or a third country by the authorities of the host country
Deportation
The movement of persons who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence (whether within their own country or across an international border), in particular as a result of or in order to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or natural or human-made disasters.
Displacement
A formal act by a State authority with the intention of securing the removal of a non-national from its territory
Expulsion
A non-legal term encompassing the range of different claims in which gender is a relevant consideration in the determination of refugee status
Gender-Related persecution
The country in which a non-national stays or resides, whether legally or irregularly.
Host country
Material or logistical assistance provided for humanitarian purposes, typically in response to crises and disasters.
Hummanitarian assistance
The protection that is accorded by the international community to individuals or groups who are outside their own country, who are unable to return because they would be at risk there, and whose own country is unable or unwilling to protect them.
International protection
Activities that allow people to secure the basic necessities of life, such as food, water, shelter and clothing.
Livelihoods
People who choose to move across international borders, not because of a direct threat of persecution, serious harm, or death, but exclusively for other reasons, such as to improve their conditions by pursuing work or education opportunities, or to reunite with family
Migrant
Child
Minor
A migrant who, owing to unauthorized entry, breach of a condition of entry, expiry of a visa or stay permit, or failure to comply with an expulsion order, has no legal permission to stay in a host country
Migrant in an irregular situation
An individual who holds the nationality of a State. This term is often used synonymously with citizen.
National
A core principle of international human rights and refugee law that prohibits States from returning individuals in any manner whatsoever (whether directly or indirectly) to territories where they may be at risk of persecution, torture, or other forms of serious or irreparable harm.
Non-refoulement
All persons for whom UNHCR is mandated to provide protection, solutions and assistance
Persons of concern to UNHCR
A facility dedicated to the management of reception arrangements for asylum-seekers, refugees and migrants.
Reception center
A facility dedicated to the management of reception arrangements for asylum-seekers, refugees and migrants.
Refugee camp
The procurement, in order to obtain, directly or indirectly, a financial or other material benefit, of the irregular entry of a person into (the territory of) a State of which the person is not a national or a permanent resident
Smuggling of migrants
A person who is not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law, either because they never had a nationality, or because they lost it without acquiring a new one.
Stateless person
A child who has been separated from both parents and other relatives and is not being cared for by an adult who, by law or custom, is responsible for doing so
Unaccompanied child
Attitudes, prejudices and behavior that reject, exclude and often vilify persons, based on the perception that they are outsiders or foreigners to the community, society or national identity
Xenofobia
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