Except where this Convention contains more favourable provisions a Contracting State shall accord to refugees the same treatment as is ... Article 7 Personal status 1. The personal status of a refugee ...
The basis for the right to return under international refugee law can be found in the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (hereafter referred to as the Refugee Convention ...
The Contracting States shall not apply to such refugees restrictions of movement other than those which are necessary and, except for reasons of national security, such restrictions shall only be ...
They become refugees when they cross borders and seek safety in another country. They are displaced when they are forced to flee their homes, but remain within the borders of their native country. The ...
The process, which began under the League of Nations in 1921, culminated in the 1951 Convention which consolidated and expanded on previous international instruments relating to refugees ...
which gives refugees and asylum applicants special protection. The convention has the status of an international treaty and was adopted with wide support, including by the countries where anti ...
As severe climate events increase, so does the number of climate refugees—people driven from their homes by extreme weather ...
Accelerated procedures, limited rights of appeal, and restrictive interpretations of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol continued to deprive asylum ...
Asylum seekers say they are refugees and have fled their homes as refugees do, but their claim to refugee status is not yet ... The 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol help protect ...
This book presents the first comprehensive analysis of the human rights of refugees as set by the ... definition set by Article 1 of the Convention. As he did in his earlier seminal text, The Law of ...
Under the program, the government scrutinizes each application for refugee status according to the definition of refugees under the convention to determine whether the individual “has a well ...
KUALA LUMPUR: Acceding to the 1951 Refugee Convention will not ... Meanwhile, UNHCR refugee status determination officer ...