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Organic Law on Refugees and Asylum-Seekers

Organic Law on Refugees and Asylum-Seekers

Human Mobility
Legislation
2001
Year of publication
2001
Specific thematic area
Refugee
Sector of governance
Human Mobility
Type of human mobility
Displacement, Migration
Characteristics of human mobility
Cross-border
Type of environmental driver
None
Local governance marker
Not Available
Sudden-onset/slow-onset
None
Sub-region
South America
Region
South America
Macro-region
Americas
Relevant GCM objective
    5 - Regular pathways
Child marker
Not Available
Gender marker
Not Available
Human rights marker
Not Available

[...] groups of persons in need of protection that are fleeing from the same country, making it difficult to immediately determine the reasons that caused their movement, particularly: persons who wish to claim asylum as refugees in Venezuela, or persons that use the national territory as a transit point to enter again the territory from which they came or persons that wish to remain temporarily in Venezuelan territory and who do not wish to claim asylum as refugees.

Art.32

*References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).