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aid agency: The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees defined a refugee as a person fleeing conflict or persecution and obliged its signatories to offer asylum to those who qualify, according to CBC. Central American refugees a crisis on Canada's doorstep, says aid agency Central American corridor a dangerous route en route to Canada African migrants wait in limbo in Mexico But seven decades later, with a refugee crisis of even greater magnitude unfolding, driven by scattered conflicts in Africa, the Middle East and Central America, those very governments have turned their backs on the principles underpinning the system they created, Axworthy told CBC News in an interview. In the aftermath of the Second World War, as tens of millions Europeans fled their homes and the world's worst refugee crisis was then high on the international agenda, Western powers established a set of rules to protect the inalienable rights of those displaced by war. With governments increasingly reluctant to afford refugees the protections to which they are entitled under international law, it is necessary to take that fundamental, irrefutable right to asylum and say, 'how do we translate that into a modern idiom.' Lloyd Axworthy, left, who was invested as Companion of the Order of Canada by Gov. David Johnston earlier this year, has been tapped to lead a new international group in search of practical solutions to the world's massive refugee crisis. Gen. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.