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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet
Somehow I am not sure that people fleeing war and rape in Syria etc find themselves in Denmark....
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Because Denmark welcome refugees obv...
The UN Refugee Convention was approved in 1951. Denmark was the first state to ratify the treaty. Today 144 countries have signed the convention.
According to the Refugee Convention the definition of a refugee is:
” A person who owing to a well founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it.”
In the Danish Aliens Act §7 (1) refers to this definition and thereby gives status as a convention refugee (K-status).
The refugee convention includes the ”non-refoulement” principle that concludes that no person should be sent back to persecution or to a third country that will send the person back to persecution.
Denmark has also signed several conventions that ban torture, the death penalty and other kinds of inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment. This protection status (B-status) can be found in the Danish Aliens Act §7 (2).
Refugees can also be covered by a number of other conventions, which Denmark has signed, amongst others the European Convention on Human Rights, United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, United Nations two conventions on statelessness, United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.'
http://refugeeswelcome.dk/en/facts/