This blog focuses on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a creation of the United Nations, and how it is applicable to current events. A project for Professor Vincent Ferraro's "World Politics" Class.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has reported a spike in asylum-seeking persons. The rise is in the "total number of people requesting refugee status" and from January to June of this year the amount was about 330,700 people. This is a 24% an increase from the same six-month period of last year. The requests are concentrated in five nations, the most populous being Germany, then United States, France, Sweden and Turkey. The top countries to contribute to the refugee influx reads Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Eritrea. The origin of these claims come from countries with oppressive regimes that endanger it's citizens. In 2013 612,700 asylum applications were sent to 44 countries and the UNCHR estimates that by the end of 2014 these nations will have amassed 700,000 people. This report reflects the implementation of two articles within the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 13 states that persons have the right to "leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country" while Article 14 finds that "Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution."
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