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The 1969 Refugee Convention has made some significant advances from the 1951 Refugee Convention. Discrimination against refugees is prohibited on the additional grounds of membership of a particular social group, nationality, or political opinion. These grounds were absent in the 1951 Refugee Convention.
Prior to the 1951 convention, the League of Nations' Convention relating to the International Status of Refugees, of 28 October 1933, dealt with administrative measures such as the issuance of Nansen certificates, refoulement, legal questions, labour conditions, industrial accidents, welfare and relief, education, fiscal regime and exemption from reciprocity, and provided for the creation of ...
The Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees is a key treaty in international refugee law.It entered into force on 4 October 1967, and 146 countries are parties. The 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees restricted refugee status to those whose circumstances had come about "as a result of events occurring before 1 January 1951", as well as giving states party to ...
The Union of South Africa was recognized as the successor state of this ratification. Chile: 1879 China: 1904 Colombia: 1906 Congo Free State: 1888 Cuba: 1907 Denmark: 1864 Original signatory. Dominican Republic: 1907 Ecuador: 1907 El Salvador: 1874 France: 1864 Original signatory. Germany: 1906 Greece: 1865 Guatemala: 1903 Haiti: 1907 Hesse: 1866
The Security Council stressed the importance of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees of 1951 and of particular relevance was the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa. The host of a refugee camp was responsible for its security and humanitarian nature.
Group of internally displaced persons arrives in Munigi, Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2013 The Kampala Convention (formally, the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa) is a treaty of the African Union (AU) that addresses internal displacement caused by armed conflict, natural disasters and large-scale development projects in ...
The International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (ICSPCA) International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families; Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees; Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
The African Refugee Convention also addresses non-refoulement, stating that no person shall be subjected to measures that would compel them to return to a territory where their life, physical integrity, or liberty would be threatened [88]. Additionally, the African Refugee Convention emphasizes the voluntary nature of repatriation, ensuring ...