Relative convention with the statute of the refugees and the stateless people

See also: Geneva Convention (homonymy)

The Relative convention with the statute of the refugees , often named by short cut convention of Geneva , defines the methods according to which a State must grant the statute of refugee to the people who make the request of it, as well as the rights and the duties of these people. It was adopted the July 28th 1951 by a conference the plenipotentiary ones on the statute of the refugees and the stateless people convened by the United Nations, pursuant to resolution 429 (V) of the General meeting dated December 14th, 1950.

One should not confuse this Relative convention with the statute of the refugees with the Geneva Conventions which since 1949 codify the rights and the duties of the combatants and the civilians in time of war.

Structure of convention

  1. Definition
  2. general Obligations
  3. Not discrimination
  4. granted Right Religions
  6. Circumstances
  7. Exemptions of reciprocities
  8. Exemptions of measurements
  9. Temporary measures
  10. Continuities
  11. Sailors.

History

The Geneva Convention of 1951 has as an official title Relative convention with the statute of the refugees and the stateless people and was signed in Geneva on July 28th, 1951. At the conclusion of the Second world war, and to take account of the experiments made in the inter-war period, one decided to allow the refugees to reach a statute, a recognition, and an international protection.

One created in Geneva in 1946 the International organization for the refugees (OIR), ancestor of the Office of the High Commission for the Refugees (HCR), founded in 1951.

The Convention of 1951 consolidated the preceding international instruments and constitutes still today the most complete coding of the right of the refugees. This Convention comprised nevertheless a deadline: it applied only to the refugees of before January 1st, 1951.

Thanks to the Protocol relating to the statute of the refugees signed in 1967, this limitation does not exist any more and the Geneva Convention of 1951 also applies to the contemporary refugees.

See too

  • Geneva Convention relating to the statute of the refugees and Protocol relating to the statute of the refugees (site of Office of the High Commission to the human rights).

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