A/RES/74/131
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 61
Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees, questions relating to refugees, returnees and
displaced persons and humanitarian questions
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 18 December 2019
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/393)]
74/131.
Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa
The General Assembly,
Recalling the Organization of African Unity Convention governing the specific
aspects of refugee problems in Africa of 1969 1 and the African Charter on Human and
Peoples’ Rights, 2
Reaffirming that the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, 3
together with the 1967 Protocol thereto, 4 as complemented by the Organization of
African Unity Convention of 1969, remains the foundation of the international
refugee protection regime in Africa,
Welcoming the entry into force on 6 December 2012 and the ongoing process of
ratification of the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of
Internally Displaced Persons in Africa, which marks a significant step towards
strengthening the national and regional normative frameworks for the protection of
and assistance to internally displaced persons,
Welcoming the decision of the African Union to declare 2019 as the African Year
of Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Towards Durable Solutions
to Forced Displacement in Africa,
Recognizing the particular vulnerability of women and children, as well as older
persons and persons with disabilities, among refugees and displaced persons,
including exposure to discrimination, sexual exploitation and abuse, physical abuse,
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1001, No. 14691.
Ibid., vol. 1520, No. 26363.
Ibid., vol. 189, No. 2545.
Ibid., vol. 606, No. 8791.
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