Refugees are people who have been forced to flee their homes to escape war, violence, conflict or persecution. A refugee crosses an international border to find safety in another country and is unable to return home for fear of persecution on the grounds of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group.

As a party to the Refugees Convention, Australia has agreed to ensure that people who meet the United Nations definition of refugee are not sent back to a country where their life or freedom would be threatened. This is known as the principle of non-refoulement.

2019年12月26日 · The term ‘refugee’ has a more specific meaning under international law. The most widely accepted legal definition of refugee is in the Refugee Convention, which defines a refugee as:

2015年8月14日 · According to the Convention, a refugee is a person who is outside their own country and is unable or unwilling to return due to a well-founded fear of being persecuted because of their: political opinion. Asylum seekers or refugees and migrants have very different experiences and reasons for moving to another country.

2011年12月19日 · Refugee law in Australia. The Refugees Convention. 22.5 Australia is a signatory to the Refugees Convention, the key international instrument that regulates the obligations of states to protect refugees fleeing from persecution. [2] Article 1A(2) defines a refugee as a person who,

2024年6月17日 · ‘Refugee’ is used commonly to refer to people who are forced to leave their homes for many reasons, including conflict and violence. Sometimes it is used to also refer to a person displaced due to a natural disaster environmental change. But the term ‘refugee’ has a more specific meaning under international law.

For the refugee criterion, the country is established by reference to the definition of a refugee in art 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (the Convention).

2023年4月2日 · Australia’s legislation defines a refugee as a person who is outside their country of origin and is unable or unwilling to return because of a well-founded fear of persecution. This fear of persecution must relate to one of the grounds articulated in the 1951 Convention.

2019年12月26日 · The term ‘refugee’ has a specific legal meaning because of the widely accepted definition of a refugee in the Refugee Convention. A broader term that is often used to distinguish between people who choose to leave, and people who are forced to …

The Guide is structured around key concepts and issues that arise in considering the definition of ‘refugee’ in the Act, which applies to visa applications made on or after 16 December 2014. These concepts are largely drawn from art 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of