IndiaRefugee

Hanson Oh Period 0 India Rights of Refugees __** A. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY **__ 1. India 2. Varies from tropical monsoon in South to temperate 3.  a.  20 00 N, 77 00 Erelative Between Burma and Pakistan. b. Upland plain in South, flat to rolling plain along the Ganges deserts in West, Himalayas in North c. Total 3,287,590 sq km, land 2,973,190sq km, water 314,400 sq km __** B.  POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY **__ 4. Federal Republic, Bahujan Samaj Party or BSP [MAYAWATI]; Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP [Rajnath SINGH]; Biju Janata Dal or BJD [Naveen PATNAIK]; Communist Party of India or CPI [Ardhendu Bhushan BARDHAN]; Communist Party of India-Marxist or CPI-M [Prakash KARAT]; Dravida Munnetra Kazagham or DMK [M. KARUNANIDHI]; Indian National Congress or INC [Sonia GANDHI]; Janata Dal (United) or JD(U) [Sharad YADAV]; Jharkhand Mukti Morcha or JMM [Shibu SOREN]; Left Front (an alliance of Indian leftist parties); Lok Jan Shakti Party or LJSP [Ram Vilas PASWAN]; Nationalist Congress Party or NCP [Sharad PAWAR]; Pattali Makkal Katchi or PMK [S. RAMADOSS]; Rashtriya Janata Dal or RJD [Laloo Prasad YADAV]; Samajwadi Party or SP [Mulayam Singh YADAV]; Shiromani Akali Dal or SAD [Parkash Singh BADAL]; Shiv Sena or SS [Bal THACKERAY]; note - India has dozens of national and regional political parties; only parties or coalitions with four or more seats in the People's Assembly are listed s  5. Capital: New Delhi 6.  ADB, AfDB (nonregional members), ARF, ASEAN (dialogue partner), BIMSTEC, BIS, C, CERN (observer), CP, EAS, FAO, G-15, G-20, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAS (observer), MIGA, MONUC, NAM, OAS (observer), OPCW, PCA, PIF (partner), SAARC, SACEP, SCO (observer), UN, UNCTAD, UNDOF, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNITAR, UNMIS, UNMIT, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO 7. Male and Female:16-49 8. Language: Hindi 41%, Bengali 8.1%, Telugu 7.2%, Marathi 7%, Tamil 5.9%, Urdu 5%, Gujarati 4.5%, Kannada 3.7%, Malayalam 3.2%, Oriya 3.2%, Punjabi 2.8%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.2%, other 5.9%. Religion: Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% 9. population: 1,147,995,904, population growth rate: 1.578% 10. New Delhi 11. Infant mortality rate: //total:// 32.31 deaths/1,000 live births //male:// 36.94 deaths/1,000 live births //female:// 27.12 deaths/1,000 live births
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Life expectancy //total population:// 69.25 years //male:// 66.87 years //female:// 71.9 years

12. teachers and doctors per population 13. GNP or GDP: $2,900 14. //arable land:// 48.83% 15. Natural Gas 16. textiles, chemicals, food processing, steel, transportation equipment, cement, mining, petroleum, machinery, software 17. major exports: $175.7 billion and imports : $287.5 billion 18. Indian rupees (INR) per US dollar - 43.319 (2008 est.), 41.487 (2007), 45.3 (2006), 44.101 (2005), 45.317 (2004), 46.583 (2003) 19. Indian rupees (INR) per US dollar - 43.319 (2008 est.), 41.487 (2007), 45.3 (2006), 44.101 (2005), 45.317 (2004), 46.583 (2003) 20. http://www.webindia123.com/history/facts/time.htm https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html
 * __ D. ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY __**
 * 1987 ||  || India deploys troops for peacekeeping operation in Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict. Goa becomes the 25th state of India. ||
 * 1989 ||  || Rajiv Gandhi's Congress defeated in ninth general elections; minority government led by Janata Dal's V.P Singh comes to power ||
 * 1990 || - || Indian troops withdrawn from Sri Lanka. ||
 * 1991 || - || V.P Singh's government falls . Rajiv Gandhi assassinated. Congress government return to power with P.V. Narasimha Rao as Prime Minister ||
 * 1992 || - || The dome of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya demolished by hindu fanatics; triggering widespread Hindu-Muslim violence. ||
 * 1996 || - || Congress suffers worst ever electoral defeat as Hindu nationalist BJP emerges as largest single party. In May 16 AB Vajpayee is PM, until May 28; [|United] Front Coalition forms government under Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda ||
 * 1997 || - || Congress withdraws support to coalition government; I.K. Gujaral sworn in Prime Minister. ||
 * 1998 || - || BJP forms coalition government under Prime Minister [|__Atal Bihari Vajpayee__]. ||
 * 1999 || - || Vajpayee makes historic bus trip to Pakistan to meet Premier Nawaz Sharif and to sign bilateral Lahore peace declaration. ||
 * 1999 || - || Intense fighting in Kargil ||
 * 2004 || - || Congress Party win in general elections. [|__Dr. Manmohan Singh__] is sworn in as Prime Minister. ||

***Sources required for the Country Profile** __** II. Background: (20 points) **__ a. Refugee lose their freedom when they flee from their country because of their Native Country's difficulties. b. Many Refugees Refugee Camps, where the conditions are horrible, they're discriminated by others and their health care are denied. c. People should focus on international protection, trying help refugees around India d. Although India was not part of the refugee convention on 1951, India has still kept close with the UNHCR by keeping an office in India since 1981. III. UN Involvement: (25 points) a. http://www.unhcr.org/news/NEWS/47a204ba2.html http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Countries/AsiaRegion/Pages/INLinks.aspx http://www.unhcr.org/news/NEWS/47a204ba2.html b. UNHCR, UNICEF, UNDP, UNAIDS c. UN has set an office in Geneva, India to help out refugees d. UNHCR __** IV. Country Policy/Possible Solutions: (35 points) ****__ a. India has ensured protection for many refugees and displaced populations over the years b. India was not part of Refugee Convention in 1951, but has a UN office in Geneva, India since 1981. c. India provided more than 73,000 camps that help the refugees when they fled their countries. d. India is planning to create more camps that would be prepared for helping other refugees that flee from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran. e. India create a committee called RHINO (Refugees Helped Immediately Now Organization) that would provide camps and teachers so that refugees can have education and not be discriminated.