Sentences with phrase «fear of persecution based»

Convention refugees are defined in s 96 of the IRPA as persons who are outside their home country or the country where they normally live, and who are unwilling to return because of a well - found fear of persecution based on: race; religion; political opinion; nationality; or membership in a particular social group, such as women or people of a particular sexual orientation.

Refugees flee their country of origin because of war, persecution, or a well - founded fear of persecution based on their race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.

A refugee is someone who has fled their home country and can not return because of a well - founded fear of persecution based on religion, race, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group.

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The phrase «Separation of Church and State» was Jefferson's response to the Danbury Baptists who feared persecution by Connecticut's majority sect, a fear based in the use of State powers by dominant religious sects in virtually every colony to oppress minority religious views.

For instance, uncertainty about the 1994 - 1998 Rwandan refugees» future in exile is compounded by the recent resolution of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to launch military attacks on refugees based in the DRC.35 No account has been taken concerning the fact that they are survivors of the 1996 - 2000 massive forced repatriation and that they have been more vulnerable to extremely stressful and traumatic events that took place since the invasion of Rwanda on October 01, 1990.36 Although they are indeed susceptible to posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, high level of fear and anxiety (psychosomatic) and / or malnutrition caused by the persecution and destruction of the war, no one who wants to empathise with them.

The Hogan Lovells team filed the man's Application for Asylum with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services asserting prior persecution based on sexual orientation while living in Nigeria, as well as a well - founded fear of future persecution based on sexual orientation if he returned to Nigeria.