Refugees Act
Year of publication
2006
Specific thematic area
Refugee
Sector of governance
Human Mobility
Type of human mobility
Migration
Characteristics of human mobility
Cross-border
Type of environmental driver
None
Local governance marker
Not Available
Sudden-onset/slow-onset
None
Sub-region
Eastern Africa
Region
Eastern Africa
Macro-region
Africa
Relevant GCM objective
- 5 - Regular pathways
Child marker
B
Gender marker
B
Human rights marker
B
4. Qualifications for refugee status A person qualifies to be granted refugee status under this Act if— (...) (c) owing to external aggression, occupation, foreign domination or events seriously disturbing public order in either a part or the whole of his or her country of origin or nationality, that person is compelled to leave his or her place of habitual residence in order to seek refuge in another place outside his or her country of origin or nationality; (...)
Sec. 4