Arab Convention on Regulating Status of Refugees in the Arab Countries
Year of publication
1994
Specific thematic area
Refugee
Sector of governance
Human Mobility
Type of human mobility
Displacement
Characteristics of human mobility
Cross-border
Type of environmental driver
Disaster-related events
Local governance marker
Not Available
Sudden-onset/slow-onset
Both
Regional instruments Member countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Arab Rep, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Sub-region
Multiple
Region
Multiple
Macro-region
Multiple
Relevant GCM objective
- 5 - Regular pathways
Child marker
C
Gender marker
B
Human rights marker
B
Article 1 For the purposes of this present Convention, a refugee means: (...) Any person who unwillingly takes refuge in a country other than his country of origin or his habitual place of residence because of sustained aggression against, occupation and foreign domination of such country or because of the occurrence of natural disasters or grave events resulting in major disruption of public order in the whole country or any part thereof.ORIGINAL-
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