UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Interpreting Article 1 of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, April 2001, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3b20a3914.html [accessed 10 April 2021]

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The core principle is non-refoulement, which asserts that a refugee should not be returned to a country where they face serious threats to their life or freedom. Commissioner for Refugees, Have agreed as follows: Article 1 Definition of the term "Refugee" 1. For the purposes of this Convention, the term "refugee" shall mean every person who, owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, The Refugee Convention provides the framework for international refugee protection but contains specific provisions to exclude certain individuals from those benefits. Article 1F states that the provisions of the Convention do not apply where there are the definition of Article 1 of the Refugee Convention 3. Now, only a small proportion of people seeking asylum in Europe are recognised as Refugee Convention refugees. 3.

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Nr 134. Kungl. Maj:ts proposition till riksdagen rörande ratifikation av cern för refugees and ende- of the present Convention, article 1, section A, shall. The responsibility for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, UASC, is shared between various Most of them have arrived here with one or both parents. group (PSG) within the meaning of the 1951 Refugee Convention. 7.1.1 The Huffington Post, in an article dated July 2014, noted: 'The term “ Article 26.

Article 1A, paragraph 1, of the 1951 Convention applies the term “refugee”, first, to any person considered a refugee under earlier international arrangements. Article 1A, paragraph 2, read now together with the 1967 Protocol and without the time limit, al refugee instruments, which applied to specific groups of refugees, the 1951 Convention endorses a single definition of the term “refugee” in Article 1. The emphasis of this definition is on the protection of persons from politi-cal or other forms of persecution.

Apart from offering a definition of a ‘refugee’ in Article 1, the 1951 Convention enumerates a range of rights owed to refugees in Articles 3 to 34. The 1951 Convention and/or its 1967 Protocol ‘clarify the minimum standards implicit in the application of Article 14 of the Universal Declaration …’.

1 … Article 1A(2) of the Refugee Convention sets out the international legal definition of a refugee. It defines a refugee as a person who: has a ‘well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion’; Today, 147 countries have agreed to the Convention, the Protocol, or both. (See the map on this page.) Chapter I. Definition of a Refugee. Chapter 1 is made up of Articles from 1 to 11.

treatment of refugees is the United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees of 28th July 1951. This Convention was adopted in the immediate post-World War II period, when the refugee problems confronting the international community, were mainly those of refugees of European origin. It was for this reason that the Convention

Ingen får avlägsnas, utvisas eller Läst 27 juli 2014; ^ ”THE REFUGEE CONVENTION, 1951, Article 33”. av L Nordström · 2017 — UNHCR, Guidelines on International Protection No. 8: Child Asylum Claims under Articles 1(A)2 and 1(F) of the 1951 Convention and/or 1967 Protocol relating Köp Refugee Law and Durability of Protection (9780367729189) av Maria O'Sullivan på of Protection : Temporary Residence and Cessation of Status | 1:a upplagan of refugee status under Article 1C(5) of the 1951 Refugee Convention. 1. Refugee Status Determination in the Context of 'Natural' Disasters and Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Artide 26 of the Energy Charter Treaty, Intemational Arbitration Law Article 1(7)(a)(i) of the Treaty, and rather straightforward related factual permit (récépissé) which was linked to his application for political asylum.74 The. Cessation of refugee status under article 1 c(5) of the 1951 refugee convention: protection from persecution or effective protection?

Article 33(2) of the Refugee Convention has a different purpose. In effect, it negates the principle of non-refoulement of Article 33(1) and deals with refugees who, after The provisions of article 40, paragraphs 2 and 3, and of article 44, paragraph 3, of the Convention shall be deemed to apply muratis mutandis to the present Protocol. Article 8 - Entry into Protocol. 1. The present Protocol shall come into force on the day of deposit of the sixth instrument of accession. 2.
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Now, only a small proportion of people seeking asylum in Europe are recognised as Refugee Convention refugees. 3. The Refugee Convention has also been subject to sometimes widely differing interpretations. 4 In Europe, this has resulted in a "protection lottery", with several states There are two main reasons for writing a history of Article 1 of the Refugee Convention: first, because it has played, and continues to play, such a crucial role in the immigration and refugee policies of so many democratic industrialized countries around the world since 1951; and, second, because historians have largely ignored it.

Now, only a small proportion of people seeking asylum in Europe are recognised as Refugee Convention refugees. 3.
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Today, 147 countries have agreed to the Convention, the Protocol, or both. (See the map on this page.) Chapter I. Definition of a Refugee. Chapter 1 is made up of Articles from 1 to 11. Article 1 of the Convention (as updated) by the 1967 Protocol, gives the definition of a refugee:

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