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Brief
Overview
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SOMRAF Constitution
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A refugee is a person who has
fled his or her country due to
well-founded fear of persecution
for reasons
of race, religion, nationality,
membership of a particular
social group or political
opinion, and is unable or
unwilling to return to that
country due to such fear.
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)
are individuals who have been
forced to flee their homes for
many of
the same reasons as refugees or
who have been uprooted by
conflict, but have not crossed
an international border.
There are a range of situations
that result in the creation of
refugee and IDP populations.
Some refugees and IDPs flee
their homes due to conflict,
while others are trying to
escape political or religious
persecution.A refugee is
entitled to international
protection under the 1951
Convention Relating to the
Status of Refugees and its 1967
Protocol. Moreover, enshrined in
the 1948 Declaration of Human
Rights is the right to seek and
enjoy asylum from persecution in
other countries. While
internally displaced civilians
are not afforded the protections
provided in international
refugee law, the protection of
their fundamental human rights
and physical security is
grounded in international human
rights and humanitarian law.
Generally recognized durable
solutions for refugee
populations include:
Repatriation:
The return of refugees to
their country of origin.
Repatriation must be voluntary
and must enable refugees to
return in safety and dignity to
their home countries.
Local Integration: The
agreement of a host country to
allow refugees to remain
permanently in that
country. Local integration can
enable refugees to enjoy a wider
range of rights in the
community, become
self-reliant through the
establishment of livelihoods,
and live without discrimination
while maintaining
their own cultural identity.
Resettlement: The agreement by a
third country to allow refugees
to settle permanently.
Resettlement is
most often used when refugees
are unable to return to their
home countries or remain in
their country
of asylum, and is only available
to a small fraction of the
world’s refugees. |
Somalia/Somaliland,
