Causes of Refugees

By Chanel & Nicole

A person who has fled their homeland because of political

persecution.

CIVIL WAR

MILITARY PROBLEMS

CORRUPT GOVERNMENT

ECONOMIC TENSIONS

People forced to leave their country and seek refuge due to persecution based on race, nationality, religion,

ethnicity.

Arab-Israeli Conflict in Palestine

ETHNIC CONFLICT

Poverty

HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

People who have been forced to leave their homes due to an environmental disruption, e.g. natural disaster, that

jeopardised their existence or seriously affected their quality of life.

TSUNAMIS

EARTHQUAKES

FLOODS

A person displaced by climatically induced environmental disasters. Such disasters result from incremental and rapid ecological change. Droughts Desertification Rising sea levels Extreme weather events

RISING SEA LEVELS

DROUGHTS

Process in which fertile land becomes

desert, deforestation, or

inappropriate architecture.

DESERTIFICATION

BushfiresCyclonesTornados

EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS

Extreme rainHeat wavesFloods

Dust stormsSevere weatherWinter weather