Understanding the world · Environment & the future

Who can be granted asylum?

Since 1951, one rule has protected the persecuted everywhere. But it never saw the climate coming.

Geneva Convention, 19513 min read5 partsQuiz of 9 questions
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Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction

All over the world, people flee their country because their life or their freedom is under threat. For centuries an unwritten rule has said that a door must be opened to them: the right of asylum. Governed by precise laws since the 20th century, that door is now more and more contested.

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  1. 2The foundations laid after 1951
  2. 3Refugee, asylum seeker, migrant: three different words
  3. 42015: the shock of the European migration crisis
  4. 5The new challenge: climate and politics
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