persecution

Definition(s)

Human rights abuses or other serious harm, often, but not always, with a systematic or repetitive element.

Source(s)

UNHCR Master Glossary of Terms

Translations

• BG: преследване
• CS: pronásledování
• DE: Verfolgung
• EL: δίωξη
• EN: persecution
• ES: persecución
• ET: tagakiusamine
• FI: vaino
• FR: persécution
• GA: géarleanúint
• HU: üldöz(tet)és
• IT: persecuzione
• LT: persekiojimas
• LV: vajāšana
• MT: Persekuzzjoni
• NL: vervolging
• PL: prześladowanie
• PT: perseguição
• RO: persecuţie
• SK: prenasledovanie
• SL: preganjanje
• SV: förföljelse
• NO: forfølgelse (b); forfølging (n)

Narrower Term(s)

• act of persecution
• actor of persecution
• Convention grounds for persecution
• group persecution
• well-founded fear of persecution

Related Term(s)

• serious harm

Note(s)

The core concept of persecution was deliberately not defined in the Geneva Refugee Convention and Protocol, to suggesting that the drafters intended it to be interpreted in a sufficiently flexible manner so as to encompass ever-changing forms of persecution.