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“What happens after the leap across the abyss?”
(Quote taken from Syrian refugees in Tunisia segment, Khedija Lemkecher, director)
The writer is Green Comma’s managing director, Amit Shah, who collaborated with Chandita Mukherjee, executive producer, to provide the following background to the making of this timely documentary.
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The legal definition of a refugee in the modern world was first defined in 1921 by the League of Nations, Commission on Refugees. Then refined after each cataclysmic human disaster (read war). In 1951, in the aftermath of World War II and the onset of migrations from eastern Europe, the United Nations (UN) adopted this:
