SS+-+Refugees


 * What are 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 his nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country..." **

// The 1951 Convention relating to // // the Status of Refugees // // from [|www.unhcr.o] //

Follow the web quest here

Watch these awful experiences at http://www.mediastorm.org/0010.htm

Crisis in Darfur http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/interactives/chad/

We have people who have had to leave their homes in Christchurch at the moment. They cannot live in their own houses and many people have left the area. From the web quest definitions are they refugees?