english: The world has known refugees  for millennia, but the modern definition was drafted in the UN's 1951 Convention relating to the status of refugees in response to mass persecutions and displacements of the Second World War.
non_english: Svet pozna begunce že tisočletja, a moderno definicijo so skovali na Konvenciji ZN 1951 nanašajoč se na status begunca kot odziv na množično preganjanje in razseljevanje v drugi svetovni vojni.