The Refugee Convention was designed for a crisis like the invasion of Ukraine
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...