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Refugee advocacy organizations, including the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children, focus their programs and advocacy specifically on the needs of refugee women, children, and youth.

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Another study showed that nearly thirty percent of Bosnian refugee women had symptoms of PTSD three or four years after their arrival in Sweden.

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The definition of a refugee at this time was an individual with either a Nansen passport or a "Certificate of Eligibility" issued by the International Refugee Organization.

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The governments of West Bengal, Bihar, Assam, Meghalaya, and Tripura established refugee camps along the border.

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A person who is seeking to be recognized as a refugee is an asylum seeker.

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The term "refugee" is sometimes applied to people who may have fit the definition if the 1951 Convention was applied retroactively.

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The final estimate of refugee numbers was over seven hundred thousand according to the United Nations Conciliation Commission.

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Equally, the dissolution of countries, such as former Yugoslavia, has led to significant population movements and refugee problems.

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The refugee situation with the presence of numerous refugee camps continues to be a point of contention in the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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The "farthest Mosque" (al-masjid al-Aqsa) in verse 17:1of the Qur'an is traditionally interpreted by Muslims as referring to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

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Women and adolescent girls in refugee settings are especially vulnerable to exploitation, rape, abuse, and other forms of gender-based violence.

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The UNRRA was shut down in 1949 and its refugee tasks given to the International Refugee Organization (IRO).

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The refugee camps soon came to be controlled by the former government and Hutu militants who used the camps as bases to launch attacks against the new government in Rwanda.

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The practice of assigning meanings to flowers is known as floriography.

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Beyond the toxicity risks to human health and the environment which are associated with first-generation nanomaterials, nanotechnology has broader societal implications and poses broader social challenges.

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Refugee was defined as a legal group in response to the large numbers of people fleeing Eastern Europe following World War II.

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Without an education, refugee women and youth often struggle to support themselves and their families.

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The division of territories also led to refugee movements.

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A study of the jaguar in the Chamela-Cuixmala Biosphere Reserve on the Mexican Pacific coast, showed ranges of just 30–50 kilograms (66–110 lbs), about the size of the cougar (Nuanaez et al.

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Africa has also become an area of large refugee problems, following various civil wars and revolutions.