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Running to Safety
Only a small percentage of refugees are resettled each year, and humanitarian visas are difficult to obtain Several countries, including the United States, used the Covid-19 public health emergency as a pretext to ban asylum seekers and push them off to neighboring countries ill-equipped to deal with them, or confine them in scandalous inhumane jail-like conditions at the border, thereby denying them due process in their asylum claims Children should not be detained for immigration-related purposes, irrespective of their legal/migratory status or that of their parents. Instead, care arrangements and community-based programmes need to be in place to ensure adequate reception of children and their families
Internally displaced person
· Refugee
Asylum Seeker
Stateless Person
Persecution
1951 Refugee Convention relating to the Status of Refugees
1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees
The Most Shocking Second a Day Operations Data Portal: Refugee Situations Interactive Map
Refugee Life: Through a Child’s Eyes
Yusra Mardini Inspiring Story
An 11-year-old Starts Over in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
DRC Child Refugees War Stories
The Rules of War in a Nutshell
Who is a Refugee?
Who is an Asylum Seeker?
What Does it Mean to be a Refugee?
Human Rights Explained
Interactive feature by BBC Syrian Journey
Resilience – game about refugee camp and how to distribute resources
Venezuelan asylum seekers ended up on Martha’s Vineyard