Refugees is international law of critical importance for it can mean the difference between life and the death for an individual seeking asylum. Definitions in international law it may be noted depart from the ordinary meaning of the word ‘Refugees’. In everyday speech the word ‘Refugees’ is used to describe a person who is forced to flee his or her home for any reason for which the individual is not respond persecution, public disorder, civil war, famine. earth quake or environmental degradation.