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  • McLeod, who is also an instructor in Refugee Law at UBC, noted that Canada is a signatory to the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees, which states that refugees cannot be penalised for entering the country through illegal means.

    The Ocean Lady: Rethinking “Illegal” Migration in Canada : Law is Cool 2009

  • The opinion of the UNHCR carries considerable weight in Refugee Review Tribunals.

    Iran: Parliament passes apostasy death bill 2008

  • With all its creepy, foreboding religious references regarding what's wrong with the world ( "blood for blood," "eye for an eye," "we bear the mark of Cain"), Springsteen -- jangling away like a Tom Petty "Refugee" -- wants to show us ... you get the point.

    Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Review: Bruce Springsteen -- Working On A Dream 2009

  • Her primary interest is in Refugee Law and International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.

    The Osgoode Three : Law is Cool 2008

  • It is the book I affectionately refer to as the Refugee Book.

    msagara: Cast in Silence Cover, attempt one msagara 2009

  • It is the book I affectionately refer to as the Refugee Book.

    Cast in Silence Cover, attempt one msagara 2009

  • UNHCR is offering respite through an initiative called Refugee Affected and Hosting Areas.

    Stateless in Pakistan 2008

  • UNHCR is offering respite through an initiative called Refugee Affected and Hosting Areas.

    Stateless in 2008

  • Critics of current policy -- Senators Edward Kennedy and Gordon Smith introduced a bi-partisan bill called the Refugee Crisis in Iraq Act in June -- note that in the eight months immediately following the Vietnam war, the U.S. took in more than 131,000 South Vietnamese who had been involved in the American war effort.

    Marc Kusnetz: The Forgotten 2008

  • Living Like a Refugee is the CD accompanying the moving, award-winning documentary The Refugee All Stars — financed by Angelina Jolie, Keith Richards, Paul McCartney, and Ice Cube — about musicians from Sierra Leone who formed a band while in exile in a refugee camp in Guinea.

    Hot Tracks Robinson, Lisa 2006

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