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Convention governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa (adopted 10 September 1969, entered into force 20 June 1974) 1001 UNTS 45 (1969 Convention).
Eritrea, Sao Tome & Principe and the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic have neither signed nor ratified the 1969 Convention. Djibouti, Madagascar, Mauritius, Namibia and Somalia have signed but not ratified the Convention.
Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (adopted 28 July 1951, entered in to force 22 April 1954) 189 UNTS 137 (1951 Convention).
1969 Convention (n 1) art I(1).
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees (adopted 31 January 1967, entered into force 4 October 1967) 606 UNTS 267 (1967 Protocol) art 1(2).
1969 Convention (n 1) art I(2).
Ruma Mandal, ‘Protection Mechanisms Outside the 1951 Convention (“Complementary Protection”)’ (2005) UNHCR Legal and Protection Policy Research Series accessed 8 December 2010, 13.
UNHCR, ‘Note on Internation Protection’ A/AC96/830 (7 September 1994) .
1969 Convention (n 1) art I(4).
1969 Convention (n 1) art I(5).
1969 Convention (n 1) art I(4)(f) (emphasis added).
1969 Convention (n 1) art I(4)(g).
1951 Convention (n 3) art 1C(5).
1969 Convention (n 1) art I(5)(c).
UNGA, ‘Res 217A (III)’ 10 December 1948 (UDHR) art 14(1).
UNGA ‘Res 2312 (XXII)’ 14 December 1967.
Rainer Hofmann, ‘Refugee Law in the African Context’ (1992) 52 Heidelberg Journal of International Law 318, 324.
1969 Convention (n 1) art II(1).
Medard RK Rwelamira, ‘Some Reflections on the OAU Convention on Refugees: Some Pending Issues’ (1983) 16 Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa 155, 170.
1969 Convention (n 1) art II(2).
See, for example, 1951 Convention (n 3) art 33; 1969 Convention (n 1) art II(3).
See, for example, Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (adopted 10 December 1984, entered in to force 26 June 1987) 1465 UNTS 85 (CAT) art 3; Internation Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (adopted 16 December 1966, entered in to force 23 March 1976) 999 UNTS 171 (ICCPR) art 7.
See, for example, Elihu Lauterpacht and Daniel Bethlehem, ‘The Scope and the Content of the Principle of Non-Refoulement: Opinion’ in Erika Feller, Volker Turk and Frances Nicholson (eds), Refugee Protection in Internation Law: UNHCR’s Global Consultations on International Protection (CUP 2003) 140-163; contra: James Hathaway, ‘Leveraging Asylum’ (2009) 45 Texas International Law Journal 503.
1951 Convention (n 3) art 33(2).
1969 Convention (n 1) art II(3).
See, for example, Georges Abi-Saab, ‘The Admission and Expulsion of Refugees with Special Reference to Africa’ (2000) 8 African Yearbook of International Law 71, 90; Mandal (n 7) 15.
See, for example, Abi-Saab (n 26) 89; Nierum S Okogbule, ‘The Legal Dimensions of the Refugee Problem in Africa’ (2004) 10 East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights 176, 184; UNHCR, The State of the World’s Refugees 2000: Fifty Years of Humanitarian Action (OUP 2000) 57.
Guy S Goodwin-Gill and Jane McAdam, The Refugee in International Law (3rd edn OUP 2007) 208.
WJEM van Hovell tot Westerflier, ‘Africa and the Refugees: the OAU Refugee Convention in Theory and Practice’ (1989) 7 Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 172, 176.
Goodwin-Gill and McAdam (n 29) 232.
1969 Convention (n 1) art II(4).
Joan Fitzpatrick, ‘Temporary Protection of Refugees: Elements of a Formalized Regime’ (2000) 94 American Journal of International Law 279, 280.
The Refugee Research Unit, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, in Bonaventure Rutinwa, ‘Prima Facie Status and Refugee Protection’ (2002) UNHCR New Issues in Refugee Research Working Paper No 69 accessed 8 December 2010, 16.
The 1951 Convention prohibits discrimination on the grounds of race, religion or country of origin (1951 Convention (n 3) art 3).
1969 Convention (n 1) art V(2).
1969 Convention (n 1) art V(3).
1969 Convention (n 1) art V(5).
1969 Convention (n 1) art V(4).
UNGA, Res 428 (V)’ 14 December 1950 [chap 1, art 1].
Jean-Francois Durieux and Agnes Hurwitz, ‘How Many is Too Many? African and European Legal Responses to Mass Influx of Refugees’ (2004) 47 German Yearbook of International Law 105, 130.
Voluntary repatriation is one of the trifecta of ‘durable solutions’ for refugees; the others are local integration and resettlement.
1969 Convention (n 1) art VI(2).

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