| Selected international treaties and other legal texts |  | Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, of 28 July 1951
137 States Parties (1 August 2001)
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees, of 31 January 1967
136 States Parties (1 August 2001)
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 319 A (IV), of 3 December 1949, establishing a High Commissioner’s Office for Refugees as of 1 January 1951
Statute of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Annex to General Assembly Resolution 428 (V), of
14 December 1950)
United Nations Declaration on Territorial Asylum (General Assembly Resolution 2312 (XXII), of 14 December 1967)
OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa, of 10 September 1969
48 States Parties (1 August 2001)
Cartagena Declaration on Refugees, of 19-22 November 1984 |
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| Selected bibliography |  | Amnesty International, The UN and Refugees’ Human Rights, London, 1997
Carlier J.-Y. et al. (ed.), Who is a Refugee? A Comparative Case Law Study, Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 1997
Chimni B. S. (ed.), International Refugee Law: A Reader, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2000
Cohen R. and Deng F. (ed.), Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement, Brookings Institution, Washington DC, 1998
Cohen R. and Deng F. (ed.), The Forsaken People: Case Studies of the Internally Displaced, Brookings Institution, Washington DC, 1998
Coles G. J. L., UNHCR and the Political Dimensions of Protection, UNHCR, Geneva, 1995
Crisp J., Who Has Counted the Refugees? UNHCR and the Politics of Numbers, UNHCR Working Paper No. 12, Geneva, 1999
Cutts M., “Politics and Humanitarianism”, Refugee Survey Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1998
Dinstein Y., “Refugees and the Law of Armed Conflict”, Israel Yearbook on Human Rights, Vol. 12, 1982
Forsythe D., UNHCR’s Mandate: the Politics of Being Non-Political, Working Paper No. 33, Geneva, March 2001
Goodwin-Gill G., The Refugee in International Law, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996
Gowlland-Debbas V., The Problem of Refugees in the Light of Contemporary International Law, Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1996
Grahl-Madsen A., The Status of Refugees in International Law, Vols. 1 and 2, Sijthoff, Leyden, 1966 and 1972
Grahl-Madsen A., Commentary on the Refugee Convention 1951, reprinted by UNHCR, Geneva, 1997
Hathaway J. C., The Law of Refugee Status, Buttersworth, Toronto, 1991
Holborn L. W., The International Refugee Organization: A Specialized Agency of the United Nations, its History and Work 1946 – 1952, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1956
Holborn L. W., Refugees: A Problem of Our Time: the Work of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 1951–1972, 2 volumes, Scarecrow Press, Methuen NJ, 1975
Jackson I., The Refugee Concept in Group Situations, Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 1999
Kälin W., Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: Annotations, Studies in Transnational Legal Policy No. 32, American Society of International Law, Washington DC, 2000
Kourula P., Broadening the Edges. Refugee Definition and International Protection Revisited, Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1997
Krill F., “ICRC action in aid of refugees”, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 265, July-August 1988, pp. 328-350
Lavoyer J.-P., “Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons. International Humanitarian Law and the Role of the ICRC”, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 305, March-April 1995, pp. 162-180
Loescher G., The UNHCR and World Politics. A Perilous Path, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001
Nicholson F. and Twomey P. (ed.), Refugee Rights and Realities: Evolving International Concepts and Regimes, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999
Plattner D., “The Protection of Displaced Persons in Non-International Armed Conflicts”, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 291, November-December 1992, pp. 567-580
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), The State of the World’s Refugees. Fifty Years of Humanitarian Action, Geneva, 2000
UNHCR, Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status, Geneva, 1979
UNHCR, Collection of International Instruments and Other Legal Texts Concerning Refugees and Displaced Persons, 2 volumes, 2nd ed., Geneva, 1995
UNHCR, International Thesaurus of Refugee Terminology, United Nations, New York and Geneva, 1996
Weiss P., “The 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees and Some Questions of the Law of Treaties”, British Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 23, 1967 |
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| Periodicals |  | International Journal of Refugee Law, published quarterly by Oxford University Press
Journal of Refugee Studies, published quarterly by Oxford University Press
Refugee Survey Quarterly, published quarterly by Oxford University Press
Refugees/Réfugiés, magazine published by UNHCR (with Arab, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Spanish editions) |
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| Internet Websites |  | UN High Commissioner for Refugees : http://www.unhcr.ch
UNHCR RefWorld — a collection of full-text databases representing the most comprehensive and reliable refugee information resource available (also on CD-ROM) : http://www.unhcr.ch |
UNHCR/The Review
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