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Human Rights of Women Refugees

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Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Refugee is a person who has been forced to flee from their home country due to certain conflicts or persecution based on religion, nationality, a particular social group, race, etc. According to the 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is a person who fled from his country of origin due to political or other forms of persecutions and is unable or unwilling to avail the protection of that country. The term refugee covers all those who are asylum seekers, internally displaced persons, migrants, etc. regardless of the recognition of their claim. The term asylum seekers denotes those who have not been given international protection (Bradby et al. 2015). The internally displaced persons have been forced from their own homes for many reasons but have not crossed an international border. But sometimes people may flee to other parts of their own country to remain in a relatively familiar surrounding, but certain times they...

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  1. Department of Peace and Conflict Studies and Management, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, India

    Maheema Rai & Salvin Paul

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

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Rai, M., Paul, S. (2020). Human Rights of Women Refugees. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Gender Equality. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70060-1_74-1

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