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    Convention relating to the Status of Refugees

    Preamble
    Text in PDF Format
    Chapter I
    GENERAL PROVISIONS
    Article 1. - Definition of the term
    "refugee"
    Article 2. - General obligations
    Article 3. - Non-discrimination
    Article 4. - Religion
    Article 5. - Rights granted apart
    from this Convention
    Article 6. - The term "in the same
    circumstances"
    Article 7. - Exemption from
    reciprocity
    Article 8. - Exemption from
    exceptional measures
    Article 9. - Provisional measures
    Article 10. - Continuity of
    residence
    Article 11. - Refugee seamen
    Chapter II
    JURIDICAL STATUS
    Article 12. - Personal status
    Article 13. - Movable and
    immovable property
    Article 14. - Artistic rights and
    industrial property
    Article 15. - Right of association

    Adopted on 28 July 1951 by the United Nations Conference of


    Plenipotentiaries on the Status of Refugees and Stateless Persons
    convened under General Assembly resolution 429 (V) of 14
    December 1950
    Entry into force: 22 April 1954, in accordance with article 43
    Preamble
    The High Contracting Parties ,
    Considering that the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of
    Human Rights approved on 10 December 1948 by the General Assembly have
    affirmed the principle that human beings shall enjoy fundamental rights and
    freedoms without discrimination,
    Considering that the United Nations has, on various occasions, manifested its
    profound concern for refugees and endeavoured to assure refugees the widest
    possible exercise of these fundamental rights and freedoms,
    Considering that it is desirable to revise and consolidate previous international
    agreements relating to the status of refugees and to extend the scope of and the
    protection accorded by such instruments by means of a new agreement,
    Considering that the grant of asylum may place unduly heavy burdens on certain
    countries, and that a satisfactory solution of a problem of which the United Nations
    has recognized the international scope and nature cannot therefore be achieved
    without international co-operation,
    Expressing the wish that all States, recognizing the social and humanitarian nature
    of the problem of refugees, will do everything within their power to prevent this
    problem from becoming a cause of tension between States,
    Noting that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is charged with the
    task of supervising international conventions providing for the protection of
    refugees, and recognizing that the effective co-ordination of measures taken to deal
    with this problem will depend upon the co-operation of States with the High
    Commissioner,
    Have agreed as follows :

    Article 16. - Access to courts

    Chapter I

    Chapter III

    GENERAL PROVISIONS

    GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT
    Article 17. - Wage-earning
    employment

    Article 1. - Definition of the term "refugee"


    A. For the purposes of the present Convention, the term "refugee" shall apply to
    any person who:

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    fifty-one, in a single copy, of which the English and French texts are equally
    authentic and which shall remain deposited in the archives of the United Nations,
    and certified true copies of which shall be delivered to all Members of the United
    Nations and to the non-member States referred to in article 39.

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