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The Refugee Convention was designed by refugees for refugees for exactly this kind of situation as in Ukraine writes British barrister Colin Yeo here:  https://www.freemovement.org.uk/the-refugee-convention-was-designed-for-a-crisis-like-the-invasion-of-ukraine/?mc_cid=4d24f9bc0d&mc_eid=b72b4a153a "But it was cleverly and thoughtfully constructed to be of wider use as well. The convention is intended to meet the basic needs of refugees but also recognises the desire of nation states to control their borders. Origins of the Refugee Convention There have been refugees as long as there have been war, famine and cruelty, but international refugee law first emerged after the First World War. Millions of refugees fled from revolution, persecution then famine in Soviet Russia. With the entrenchment of the nation state model in Europe, it was no longer possible for them to simply leave one country and settle in another as refugees always had in the past. In 1921 a League...

Yemen: Review Saudi Woman’s Refugee Claim Don’t Deport Before UN Agency Considers Threat to Life NOVEMBER 19, 2013 Email With a woman’s safety at stake, the Yemeni authorities should allow UNHCR to interview her. Many Saudi women have a very real fear of violence and worse if they marry a man who isn’t their family’s choice. Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director (Sanaa) – Yemeni authorities should not return a Saudi woman to her country without considering her claim that the Saudi government will not protect her against life-threatening family violence. The government should halt any deportation order against her and allow the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to interview her in detention to review her asylum claim. Huda al-Niran, 22, fled from  Saudi Arabia  to  Yemen  with a Yemeni man her family refused to let her marry, so that they could marry in Yemen, her lawyer, Abdulra...