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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
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The opinion of the UNHCR carries considerable weight in Refugee Review Tribunals.
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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
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Her primary interest is in Refugee Law and International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.
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It is the book I affectionately refer to as the Refugee Book.
msagara: Cast in Silence Cover, attempt one msagara 2009
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It is the book I affectionately refer to as the Refugee Book.
Cast in Silence Cover, attempt one msagara 2009
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UNHCR is offering respite through an initiative called Refugee Affected and Hosting Areas.
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UNHCR is offering respite through an initiative called Refugee Affected and Hosting Areas.
Stateless in 2008
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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.
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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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