Secondary Refugees
A refugee is a person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of their nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail him/herself of the protection of that country. With millions of refugees displaced, roughly 8,400,000, rights of these refugees in foreign countries have been debated. Mostly coming from Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestine, 80% of the consist of women and children. Now what is a secondary refugee? A secondary refugee is a refugee who is already out of their country of origin but yet has to move out again from their location to a “third country.” When once entering this “third country”, refugees apply for asylum. However, the broad question is how much legal freedom do refugees have to choose the countries that will decide their asylum claims? Today’s refugees are rarely able to travel directly from their countries of origin to their intended ultimate destinations. As they travel they are more likely to stop in one or more “third countries” along the way. In these stops they are put under harsh conditions and have to wait for long periods of time. Many of those third countries are developing states that lack the resources to provide internationally acceptable levels of protection. In Darfur, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in Sudan's region. Over 250,000 have fled across the border to Chad. Millions more are homeless. Most are women and children, terrified while the fighting continues. To help relieve some pain and problems the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) does so with raising money and supplies for the refugees who are in need .
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