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)
- KA: დევნა
- UK: переслідування
Narrower Term(s)
- act of persecution
- actor of persecution
- Convention grounds for persecution
- group persecution
- well-founded fear of persecution
Related Term(s)
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.