{"id":125602,"date":"2021-08-12T17:39:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T12:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=125602"},"modified":"2021-08-12T17:39:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T12:09:17","slug":"india-needs-a-clear-refugee-policy-based-on-international-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-needs-a-clear-refugee-policy-based-on-international-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"India needs a clear refugee policy based on international principles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/blogs\/toi-editorials\/an-afghan-question-india-needs-a-clear-refugee-policy-based-on-international-principles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the news?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p>Afghanistan is moving towards a Taliban-induced refugee crisis. Major countries are advising citizens to leave. GoI has asked all Indian firms operating in Afghanistan to immediately withdraw their Indian employees. Should Afghanistan descend into civil war, New Delhi won\u2019t be able to shy away from taking a call on accepting Afghan refugees.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>India&#8217;s efforts\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>India has hosted lakhs of refugees in its 74-year history.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tibetan refugees<\/strong> fleeing persecution in communist China \u2013 said to number 73,404 in India in 2019<\/li>\n<li>59,506 <strong>Sri Lankan Tamil refugees<\/strong> staying in 108 camps in <strong>Tamil Nadu and Odisha<\/strong> to<\/li>\n<li>Hosting an estimated 10 million <strong>East Pakistani refugees<\/strong> during Bangladesh\u2019s 1971 Liberation War.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #f7f2f2;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Must Read:<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/refugee-problem-in-india-explained-pointwise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">India&#8217;s refugee problem &#8211; Explained<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><strong>India&#8217;s refugee policy<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>India doesn\u2019t have a refugee policy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is neither party to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol, nor does it have a domestic refugee law.<\/li>\n<li>India has largely stuck, in practice, to the principle of non-refoulement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Way forward<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Each country has a certain capacity to absorb refugees. But that should be determined through guidelines, principles and data. Besides, if India sees itself as a middle power with deep interests in the South Asian region, it has to deal with the refugee issue as a responsible nation. Having a domestic refugee law will be a start.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Terms to know<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/non-refoulement-principle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Non-refoulement principle<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: TOI What is the news? Afghanistan is moving towards a Taliban-induced refugee crisis. Major countries are advising citizens to leave. GoI has asked all Indian firms operating in Afghanistan to immediately withdraw their Indian employees. Should Afghanistan descend into civil war, New Delhi won\u2019t be able to shy away from taking a call on&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-needs-a-clear-refugee-policy-based-on-international-principles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India needs a clear refugee policy based on international principles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700774872,"cached_date":1704870708},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}