U.S. Refugee Program for 1993: Annual Refugee Consultations : Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session ... July 23, 1992, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993 - 253 pages |
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... regional disputes and ethnic confrontations have cre- ated large numbers of additional refugees . There are now some 16 to 17 million refugees around the world . Every day , 5,000 refugees go home , but another 10,000 new refugees are ...
... regional disputes and ethnic confrontations have cre- ated large numbers of additional refugees . There are now some 16 to 17 million refugees around the world . Every day , 5,000 refugees go home , but another 10,000 new refugees are ...
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... those additional persons fleeing persecution and potential conflict in other regions of the former Yugoslavia . More than 2 million people have become refugees or displaced persons . When I met with the Bosnian foreign minister this week 2.
... those additional persons fleeing persecution and potential conflict in other regions of the former Yugoslavia . More than 2 million people have become refugees or displaced persons . When I met with the Bosnian foreign minister this week 2.
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... REGARDING THE NUMBER OF REFUGEES COMING FIRST FROM CROATIA , NOW FROM BOSNIA - HERCEGOVINA , NOT TO MENTION THOSE ADDITIONAL PERSONS FLEEING PERSECUTION AND POTENTIAL CONFLICT IN OTHER REGIONS OF THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA . 4.
... REGARDING THE NUMBER OF REFUGEES COMING FIRST FROM CROATIA , NOW FROM BOSNIA - HERCEGOVINA , NOT TO MENTION THOSE ADDITIONAL PERSONS FLEEING PERSECUTION AND POTENTIAL CONFLICT IN OTHER REGIONS OF THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA . 4.
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... REGIONS OF THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA . MORE THAN 2 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE BECOME REFUGEES OR DISPLACED PERSONS . WHEN I MET WITH THE BOSINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER THIS WEEK , HE TOLD ME ABOUT THE RECENT ANNOUNCEMENT OF CROATION OFFICIALS THAT THEY ...
... REGIONS OF THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA . MORE THAN 2 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE BECOME REFUGEES OR DISPLACED PERSONS . WHEN I MET WITH THE BOSINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER THIS WEEK , HE TOLD ME ABOUT THE RECENT ANNOUNCEMENT OF CROATION OFFICIALS THAT THEY ...
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... region were unsuccessful and the situation remained unten- able , the President , on May 24 , issued an Executive order which in- structed the Coast Guard to return interdicted Haitians directly to Haiti where refugee processing is ...
... region were unsuccessful and the situation remained unten- able , the President , on May 24 , issued an Executive order which in- structed the Coast Guard to return interdicted Haitians directly to Haiti where refugee processing is ...
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Page 89 - General shall promptly submit to the division of the court and the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report specifying the facts found and the ultimate grounds for such removal.
Page 93 - ... well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion...
Page 93 - refugee" means (A) any person who is outside any country of such person's nationality or, in the case of a person having no nationality, is outside any country in which such person last habitually resided, and who is unable or unwilling to return to, and is unable or unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of, that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality...
Page 140 - No Contracting State shall expel or return («refouler» ) a refugee in any manner whatsoever to the frontiers of territories where his life -or freedom would be threatened on account of his race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.
Page 140 - The benefit of the present provision may not, however, be claimed by a refugee whom there are reasonable grounds for regarding as a danger to the security of the country in which he is, or who, haying been convicted by a final judgment of a particularly serious crime, constitutes a danger to the community of that country.
Page 144 - No person shall be subjected by a Member State to measures such as rejection at the frontier, return or expulsion, which would compel him to return to or remain in a territory where his life, physical integrity or liberty would be threatened for the reasons set out in Article I, paragraphs 1 and 2.
Page 233 - USC 1159(b)) of aliens who have been granted asylum in the United States under section 208 of the Act (8 USC 1158), as this is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest.
Page 140 - A treaty shall be interpreted in good faith in accordance with the ordinary meaning to be given to the terms of the treaty in their context and in light of its object and purpose.
Page 140 - Panel must apply customary rules of interpretation of public international law 367 , as set out in Articles 31 and 32 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969).
Page 145 - The Attorney General is authorized to withhold deportation of any alien within the United States to any country in which in his opinion the alien would be subject to persecution on account of race, religion, or political opinion...