The 1951 Refugee Convention, supplemented by its 1967 Protocol, help protect them. They are the cornerstone of refugee protection and the key legal documents that form the basis of UNHCR’s work. The ...

Ending asylum in the United States will first require our withdrawal from the United Nations framework known as the 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1967 Protocol. To do so, President Donald Trump ...

Part of the contention concerns how exactly we define “refugee”. The 1951 UN Refugee Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees defines a refugee as someone who has fled their country because of a ...

Others have labelled the new rules a clear breach of the UN Refugee Convention because of the way it penalises refugees.

Aizawl: Chin Refugee Committee (CRC) based in New Delhi has urged UNHCR protection unit officials to accelerate the process ...

New Delhi: The UN Convention on Refugees, formally known as the 1951 Refugee Convention, is an international treaty that defines who qualifies as a refugee, their rights, and the legal obligations ...

For decades, successive Indian governments across party lines have walked the ambiguous line of tightening India’s borders ...

In the article, Oberman is explaining why his new paper, Enough Spurious Distinctions: refugees are just people in need, and argues for a rethink of global refugee policy, including a new approach to ...