eco-refugee | environmental migrant | environmental refugee

environmental migrant | environmental refugee | eco-refugee

environmental refugee [ eco-refugee | environmental migrant ]

1951 Refugee Convention | Convention relating to the Status of Refugees | Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees

Convention between the European Community and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) concerning aid to refugees in the countries of the Near East

environmental cost [ environmental appraisal cost | environmental prevention cost | environmental protection cost | environmental protection expenditure | EPE ]

refugee claimant [ refugee protection claimant | refugee status claimant | claimant of refugee protection | claimant to refugee status | person who claims refugee protection | person who has claimed refugee protection ]

refugee claimant

counselling of refugees and humanitarian cases

climate change migrant | climate change refugee | climate migrant | climate refugee

Over the coming year we will propose additional measures to manage the refugee crisis, boost jobs and growth and strengthen the single market, deepen the Economic and Monetary Union, ensure tax fairness, high social standards and promote economic, social and environmental sustainability.

39. Notes that the impact of environmental change on migration and displacement will increase in the future and that, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 80 % of the world's refugees are women and children; reiterates the importance of identifying gender-sensitive strategies for responding to the environmental and humanitarian crises caused by climate change; takes the view, therefore, that urgent research is required on how to manage environmental migration in a gender-sensitive manner – this includes recognising and responding to gender roles and responsibilities in the area of natural resources an ...[+++]d may include ensuring that scarce resources are available to communities in need and that water is provided for refugees;

"Environmental refugee" does not exist as a legal term in the international human rights regime and is not used by Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

53. Calls for the Union to support the initiatives of the international community aimed at clarifying the concepts of political, economic and environmental refugees and to provide each category with suitable protection and assistance; considers that displaced persons should receive the same level of protection as that provided for refugees under the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees of 28 July 1951; calls on the Member States and on the international community to ensure respect for the UN's Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and recommends that these rules on the protection of displaced persons be enshrined in an i ...[+++]nternational convention;