What exactly is this: asylum, temporary protection, humanitarian admission, resettlement or another protection mechanism?
Under Benin's Law 2022-31 of 20 December 2022 on the status of refugees and stateless persons in Benin, a refugee is anyone who is outside the country of their nationality or former habitual residence and has a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, and who is unable or, because of that fear, unwilling to seek that country's protection.
See recorded sources
- Law 2022-31, Article 1er (definition of "réfugié", point a)
se trouve hors du pays dont elle a la nationalité ou dans lequel elle avait sa résidence habituelle, qui craint avec raison d'être persécutée du fait de sa race, de sa religion, de sa nationalité, de son appartenance à un certain groupe social, de ses
