1967 Protocol on Refugees Article 31
2. Travel documents issued to refugees under previous international agreements by Contracting Parties shall be recognized and treated by States Parties in the same manner as if they had been issued in accordance with this Article. Whereas the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, concluded at Geneva on 28 July 1951 (hereinafter referred to as the Convention), covers only persons who have become refugees as a result of events prior to I January 1951, (g) requests for adaptation under Article 45, whereas new situations of refugees have arisen since the adoption of the Convention and the refugees concerned may therefore not fall within the scope of the Convention. the convention. 3. Each State Party shall continue to grant refugees the rights and benefits to which they are entitled, in the absence of reciprocity, at the time of entry into force of this Convention for that State. 2. The preceding paragraph shall not preclude the application to refugees of laws and regulations relating to the costs of issuing administrative documents, including identity documents, to aliens. 3. Any State which has made a declaration or notification under article 40 may, at any time thereafter, declare by notification to the Secretary-General of the United Nations that the Convention shall cease to extend to that territory one year after receipt of the notification by the Secretary-General. In the case of refugees who regularly serve as crew members on board a ship flying the flag of a State Party, that State Party shall take favourable account of their establishment in its territory and the issuance of travel documents for them or temporary admission to its territory, in particular to facilitate their settlement in another country. 1.
States Parties shall accord to refugees the same treatment as their own in the field of primary education. The Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees is a central treaty of international refugee law. It entered into force on 4 October 1967 and 146 countries are Contracting Parties. 1. States Parties shall issue travel documents to refugees lawfully residing in their territories for the purpose of travelling outside their territory, unless compelling reasons of national security or public order provide otherwise, and the provisions of the list of this Convention shall apply to such documents. States Parties may issue such a travel document to any other refugee in their territory; in particular, they shall grant a favourable examination to the issue of such a travel document to refugees on their territory who are unable to obtain a travel document from the country of their legal residence. This Convention is without prejudice to the rights and benefits granted by a State Party to refugees other than this Convention. 2. The authority or authorities referred to in paragraph 1 shall, under its supervision, issue to refugees such documents or certificates as would normally be issued to foreign nationals by or through their national authorities. Considering that it is desirable that all refugees covered by the definition of the Convention be treated in the same manner, regardless of the date line I January 1951, a copy of the present Protocol, of which the Chinese, English, French, Russian, Russian and Spanish texts are equally authentic, signed by the President of the General Assembly and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, will be signed in the archives of the United Nations Secretariat. Registered. The Secretary-General shall transmit certified copies thereof to all States Members of the United Nations and to the other States referred to in article 5.
The Refugee Convention was drafted after the Second World War, during which several million people were displaced throughout Europe. It applied only to persons who had been expelled as a result of events prior to 1 January 1951. Upon ratification (accession) of the Convention, countries could decide to further restrict its application so that it applies only to refugees displaced by events in Europe before 1 January 1951. whereas it is desirable to revise and consolidate previous international agreements on the status of refugees and to extend the scope and protection offered by these agreements by means of a new agreement 2. States Parties shall not apply any restrictions other than those necessary for the freedom of movement of such refugees, and such restrictions shall be applied only until their status in the country is regulated or they are admitted to another country. States Parties shall afford such refugees a reasonable period of time and all necessary facilities to be admitted to another country. While there is a rationing system that applies to the entire population and regulates the general distribution of scarce goods, refugees and nationals are treated equally. Without prejudice to Article 28(2) of this Convention, this Convention replaces the Agreements between the Contracting Parties of 5 July 1922, 31 May 1924, 12 May 1926, 30 June 1928 and 30 July 1935, the Conventions of 28 October 1933 and 10 February 1938, the Protocol of 14 September 1939 and the Convention of 15 October 1946.
Certain fundamental rights, including the right to be protected from refoulement, apply to all refugees. A refugee is entitled to other rights the longer he stays in the host country, which is based on the recognition that the longer he stays as a refugee, the more rights he needs. 5. Paragraphs 2 and 3 shall apply both to the rights and benefits referred to in Articles 13, 18, 19, 21 and 22 and to the rights and benefits not provided for in this Convention. 2. States Parties shall accord to refugees the most favourable and in no case the least favourable treatment generally accorded to aliens in the same circumstances, with regard to training outside primary education and in particular with regard to access to studies, recognition of certificates, diplomas and diplomas of foreign schools, the exemption of fees and taxes and the award of scholarships. 3. States Parties shall grant refugees the benefits of agreements concluded between them or concluded in the future between them for the maintenance of acquired rights and rights in the field of social security only under the conditions applicable to nationals of States signatories to the conventions in question. This article on the United Nations is a heel. You can help Wikipedia by extending it. (a) With regard to the articles of the Convention to be applied under article 1, paragraph 1, which fall within the legislative sovereignty of the Federal Legislative Authority, the obligations of the Federal Government in this regard are the same as those of Contracting States which are not federal States; States Parties shall facilitate, to the extent possible, the assimilation and naturalization of refugees.
In particular, they shall endeavour to speed up a naturalisation procedure and to reduce as far as possible the fees and costs of such a procedure. Noting that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is responsible for monitoring international conventions on the protection of refugees, and recognizing that effective coordination of measures to address this problem will depend on the cooperation of States with the High Commissioner.4 States Parties shall give favourable consideration to the possibility, in the absence of reciprocity, of granting refugees the rights and benefits to which they are entitled under paragraphs 2 and 3 and of extending the exemption from reciprocity to refugees who do not meet the conditions set out in paragraphs 2 and 3. The 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees is an international treaty. It can be read alongside the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (known as the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees). 4. Declarations made under article 40, paragraphs I and 2, of the Convention by a State Party acceding to this Protocol shall be deemed to apply to this Protocol, unless the State Party concerned so informs the Secretary-General of the United Nations upon accession. Article 40(2) and (3) and Article 44(3) of the Convention shall be deemed to apply mutatis mutandis to this Protocol. Expressing the hope that all States, recognizing the social and humanitarian character of the refugee problem, will do everything in their power to prevent the problem from becoming a cause of tension among States.4 States Parties shall consider extending favourably as far as possible the benefits of similar agreements, which may be in force at any time between those States Parties and non-States Parties, to refugees. The Protocol gave the possibility to States that had previously ratified the 1951 Convention and chose to use the definition limited to Europe to maintain this restriction. .