Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees

The Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees is a key treaty in international refugee law. It entered into force on 4 October 1967, and 146 countries are parties.

The 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees restricted refugee status to those whose circumstances had come about "as a result of events occurring before 1 January 1951", as well as giving states party to the convention the option of interpreting this as "events occurring in Europe" or "events occurring in Europe or elsewhere".

The 1967 Protocol removed both the temporal and geographic restrictions. This was needed in the historical context of refugee flows resulting from decolonisation. Madagascar and Saint Kitts and Nevis are parties only to the convention, while Cape Verde, the United States of America and Venezuela are parties only to the protocol.

The protocol gave those states which had previously ratified the 1951 Convention and chosen to use the definition restricted to Europe the option to retain that restriction. Only four states actually chose that restriction: the Republic of the Congo, Madagascar, Monaco, and Turkey. Congo and Monaco dropped the restriction upon ratifying the 1967 Protocol; Turkey retained it, and Madagascar has not ratified the protocol.^[2]

There exists a diversity of definition of refugees across the globe, where countries and even local districts have differing legal meanings and rights allocated to refugees.^[3]

References

1 2"Chapter V – Refugees and Stateless Persons". United Nations Treaty Series. 22 July 2013. Archived from the original on 14 November 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2013.
↑"States Parties to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol". April 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
↑ Lee, Eun Su; Szkudlarek, Betina; Nguyen, Duc Cuong; Nardon, Luciara (abril de 2020). "Desvelando el techo de lona : una revisión bibliográfica multidisciplinaria sobre el empleo de refugiados y la integración laboral" . International Journal of Management Reviews . 22 (2): 193– 216. doi : 10.1111/ijmr.12222 . ISSN 1460-8545 . S2CID 216204168 .

Enlaces externos

Nota introductoria de Guy S. Goodwin-Gill , nota histórica sobre el procedimiento y material audiovisual sobre la Convención relativa al Estatuto de los Refugiados y el Protocolo relativo al Estatuto de los Refugiados en los Archivos Históricos de la Biblioteca Audiovisual de Derecho Internacional de las Naciones Unidas.
Conferencias de Guy S. Goodwin-Gill tituladas "Derecho Internacional de la Migración: Una Introducción General" y "Migración Forzada: La Evolución del Derecho Internacional de los Refugiados y su Organización" en el Ciclo de Conferencias de la Biblioteca Audiovisual de Derecho Internacional de las Naciones Unidas.
Ratificaciones
Protocolo relativo al estatuto de los refugiados, de 31 de enero de 1967 – Texto en inglés

[convrat-1] 1 2"Chapter V – Refugees and Stateless Persons". United Nations Treaty Series. 22 July 2013. Archived from the original on 14 November 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2013.

[2] "States Parties to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol". April 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2023.

[3] Lee, Eun Su; Szkudlarek, Betina; Nguyen, Duc Cuong; Nardon, Luciara (abril de 2020). "Desvelando el techo de lona : una revisión bibliográfica multidisciplinaria sobre el empleo de refugiados y la integración laboral" . International Journal of Management Reviews . 22 (2): 193– 216. doi : 10.1111/ijmr.12222 . ISSN 1460-8545 . S2CID 216204168 .

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