Adopted by Arab experts at a seminar sponsored by the UNHCR in Cairo in November 1992 , it called upon Arab States to provide the secretariat of the League of Arab States with information and statistical data on the condition of refugees and displaced persons in their territories and on the national laws , regulations and decrees in force relating to refugees and displaced persons and emphasized the need to provide special protection to women and children as the largest category of refugees and displaced persons . In Europe , for the first time in 1993 , a Human Dimension Seminar of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe ( CSCE ) The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe ( CSCE ) changed its name to the Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ) on 1 January 1995 .