Research Guides & Library How-To: Refugees and Displaced Persons: Laws/Documents

Laws and Documents

Geneva Convention of 1949: relative to the Protection of CIvilian Persons in Time of War
Posted on the International Committee of the Red Cross website
The 1951 Refugee Convention
Archives from UNHCS (UN Refugee Agency); 'Signed by 144 State parties, it defines the term ‘refugee’ and outlines the rights of the displaced, as well as the legal obligations of States to protect them.'
International Humanitarian Law: Protected Persons
From the International Committee of the Red Cross
Migration Law Database
From the International Organization for Migration; can search by keyword, regional/international instruments, or browse documents.
Refugee Protection: A guide to International Refugee Law
From UNCHR (UN Refugee Agency)
Refworld
Can see laws, jurisprudence (case law, court interventions), by country, etc.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
From the UN: proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in Paris on December 10, 1948.

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