The African Community Center - Denver, CO - Helping Refugees and Asylees From All Countries Integrate Into the Denver Community

Who is a Refugee

According to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is a person who 'owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country.'

Refugees who come to our agency are generally fleeing religious, political or ethnic persecution in their homelands such as the following:

Ethiopia	Sudan	Bosnia	Somalia
Congo	Sierra Leone	Cuba	Iraq
Iran	Rwanda	Mauritania	Liberia
Burundi	Afghanistan	Burma	Vietnam

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