Who are the States parties to the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees?

The Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 1954 entered into force on April 22nd. As of June 1997 1, there were 128 States parties.

Africa

Algeria, Gabon, Niger, Zaire, Angola, Gambia, Nigeria, Zambia, Benin, Ghana, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Bloom, C? te d 'Ivoire, Seychelles, Cameroon, Kenya and Sierra Leone.

Cape Verde, Lesotho, Somalia, Central African Republic, Liberia, Sudan, Chad, Swaziland, Madagascar, Congo, Malawi, Togo, Djibouti, Mali, Tunisia, Egypt, Mauritania, Uganda, Equatorial Guinea, Morocco, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Mozambique.

United States of America

Argentina, Dominica, Peru, Belize, Ecuador, Suri, Bolivia, El Salvador, United States, Brazil, Guatemala, Uruguay, Canada, Haiti, Venezuela, Chile, Jamaica, Colombia, Nicaragua, Costa Rica.

Asia

China, Japan, Iran, Philippines, Israel, Yemen.

Europe

Austria, Hungary, Poland, Belgium, Iceland, Portugal, Cyprus, Ireland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Liechtenstein, Sweden, Finland, Luxembourg, Switzerland, France, Malta, Turkey, Germany, Monaco, Britain, Bulgaria, Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Vatican and Norway.

Oceania

Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, Fiji, Papua, New Guinea, Tuvalu

The Convention relating to the Status of Refugees was adopted at the United Nations Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Status of Refugees and Stateless Persons on July 28th, 195 1. 1954 came into effect on April 22nd. As of 1997 65438+ 10/day, there are 1 28 States parties.

Introduction:

According to the principle that everyone enjoys the basic rights and freedoms without discrimination, which is affirmed in the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and in order to ensure that refugees can exercise these basic rights and freedoms to the widest extent, the United Nations General Assembly convened a conference of plenipotentiaries from all countries in Geneva in July 195 1 to discuss and adopt this Convention.

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