Refugees in Africa
Date Submitted: 12/01/2000 06:23:53
Category: / Law & Government / Law Issues
Length: 4 pages (1139 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Law Issues
Length: 4 pages (1139 words)
Report on Refugees in Africa
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Definition:
A refugee is a person who has fled or been expelled from his or her country of origin because of natural catastrophe, war or military occupation, or fear of religious, racial, or political persecution. (Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia).
Where African refugees are found:
Africa, with more than 600 different ethnic groups, has about one-third of the world's refugees, people uprooted by famine or by …
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…ore cautious and act through international organizations, like the United Nations.
Sources:
International Herald Tribune, November 12-18 and Nov. 19-24
Material by Amnesty International on political crisis in Burundi, responsible for refugees to be pushed into Zaire and Tanzania
Refugees and Migration, by Peter Stalker 1995
Societies, Choices and Environments by Frances Slater
The Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia
The World Almanac and Book of Facts
World Refugee Survey 1993, by the US Committee for Refugees.
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