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SAFE HAVEN [4 records]

Record 1 2008-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astronautics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astronautique
OBS

zone sûre : terme uniformisé par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie spatiale - CUTS.

Spanish

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Record 2 2007-05-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Citizenship and Immigration
CONT

To offer safe haven to persons with a well-founded fear of persecution based on race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group, as well as those at risk of torture or cruel and unusual treatment or punishment.

OBS

Term found in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, 2001.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
CONT

D'offrir l'asile à ceux qui craignent avec raison d'être persécutés du fait de leur race, leur religion, leur nationalité, leurs opinions politiques, leur appartenance à un groupe social en particulier, ainsi qu'à ceux qui risquent la torture ou des traitements ou peines cruels et inusités.

OBS

Terme tiré de la Loi sur l'immigration et la protection des réfugiés, 2001.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ciudadanía e inmigración
OBS

lugar seguro: Terminología en español utilizada por la Comisión de Inmigración y Refugiados de Canadá (CIR).

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Record 3 2003-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

A protected zone in a country designated for members of a religious or ethnic minority (as in former Yugoslavia).

CONT

... the watching world ... had been largely impotent in the face of the determined Serbs who sit in the hills outside so-called safe havens like Gorazde and rain mortar fire on cowering Maslion refugees.

OBS

Not to be confused with the better known "tax haven".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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Record 4 1996-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foreign Trade
Key term(s)
  • safe havens

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce extérieur
Key term(s)
  • marges fixées

Spanish

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