Refugees are those people who have
been forced to leave their homes or country because of civil or international
wars, difference in race, religious conflicts and political instability. People
become refugee due to fear of murder, sudden change in environment,
environmental calamities, unable to bear the pressure of the government and
lack of peace and security. Their human rights are exploited but they have also
safe asylum rights. World refugee day is celebrated on 20th June each year.
People of any country can be the refugee at
anytime. They have to lose their job, friends, loved ones, society, home and
family. It is a miserable condition to become a refugee. People transfer from
one country to another country and are forced to settle as asylum in neighboring
country. Not only is an individual but also large population exiled about
thousands to millions of people in world. Life of refugee is very critical as
they have to suffer from scarcity of food, shelter, clothing and health
services. They have to stay in a group in certain place. They cannot get
quality and hygienic foods as well as clean drinking water. They suffer from
various communicable diseases like cholera, jaundice, diarrhea, dysentery and
typhoid. Children have to suffer from malnutrition and starvation in such
growing ages which has adverse impacts in their health. Pregnant mothers and
child die during delivery as they cannot get proper health facilities in time.
Infant and maternal rate increases high. Refugees do not have proper peace and
security as they have to spend a stressful, depressive and hard life. Some
refugee takes drugs to relief pains, sorrows and frustration. Mostly women and
girls are exploited in various ways either sexually, emotionally and physically
which are antisocial activities. They have to be involved in forceful sexual
activities, harassment as they have to be victim of sexually transmitted
diseases like HIV/AIDS, syphilis and gonorrhea. It results in early forceful
pregnancy and harms the health till later ages. Small children are exploited
badly and they have to work hard as they are taken weak and back warded. They
are deprived of child rights. It's all due to the lack of proper security for refugee.
Many organizations are formed to look after the refugees of the world. UNHCR (United
Nations high commission for refugee) plays a vital role in managing foods,
shelter and health care for them. This organization helps to protect them from
various violence and exploitations within the refugee camps. It tries to make good
diplomatic efforts to get them back to their homes and countries but in some
cases they do not want to get back. In such situation also, UNHCR helps them in
arranging the settlements in their host countries. As UNHCR is an agency working
under united nation, it has to collect huge amount from donor countries and
rich countries of the world to help for refugees. Some countries help them
voluntarily.
Refugees
are also the major problem for the host countries as they have to provide
education, food, shelter and health facilities for large number of refugees at
a time. The problem of the refugee can be raised in the General Assembly of UN
and international pressures should be created to return refugees to their own
country and home. World food programme also works jointly with UNHCR and other
INGO's to take care of refugees.
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