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Persuasive Essay On Refugees

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In recent history there has been one major refugee crisis that has caused not only huge outrage by the international community, it came to fruition due to one of the most infamous genocides recorded, World War Two. World War Two was one of the deadliest military conflicts in history with over 60 million who were killed (United States Census Bureau). Throughout the war there had been refugees, those who were trying to flee the conflict that gripped their homes and those trying to flee the persecution and possible death they would receive just based off of a single characteristic. After the atrocities of the war and the final solution came to light, not only the push for punishing those responsible became heard, the push for a governing body over all countries that could prevent the horrors of the War and the Holocaust from ever taking place again. With the full creation of the United Nations in 1945 and its goals firmly put into place on trying to create international coexistence and stop conflicts, it has seen many crises that spurred people leaving their home countries due to fear or conflict, enough to define what person should be considered a refugee and what, if any …show more content…

137). The 1951 Refugee Convention was held by the United Nations and was the base work in defining who should be considered a refugee and what rights they should be entitled to. For instance, Chapter Two of the Convention stated that, “The personal status of a refugee shall be governed by the law of the country of his domicile or, if he has no domicile, by the law of the country of his residence” (Convention and protocol relating to the status of refugees, p.

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