Reaffirming the responsibility of States to respect and ensure the fundamental human rights of refugees and asylum-seekers to life, liberty and security of person as well as to freedom from torture or other cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment.
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
Civil & Political Rights
Governance & Rule of Law
Movement
Person(s) affected
Persons on the move
Year
1993
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
ExCom Conclusion No. 72, Personal Security of Refugees (1993), PP 2.