United Nations
A/RES/63/149
General Assembly
Distr.: General
27 January 2009
Sixty-third session
Agenda item 39
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2008
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/63/423)]
63/149. 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
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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,
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Recognizing the particular vulnerability of women and children among
refugees and other persons of concern, including exposure to discrimination and
sexual and physical abuse,
Recognizing also that refugees, internally displaced persons and, in particular,
women and children are at an increased risk of exposure to HIV/AIDS, malaria and
other infectious diseases,
Expressing its appreciation for the decision of the African Union to convene
the Special Summit of Heads of State and Government of the African Union on
Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons in Africa, and welcoming the
ongoing process to elaborate a draft African Union convention for the protection and
assistance of internally displaced persons in Africa,
Noting with appreciation the Pact on Security, Stability and Development in
the Great Lakes Region 5 and its instruments, in particular two of the Protocols to the
Pact which are relevant to the protection of displaced persons, namely, the Protocol
on Protection and Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons 5 and the Protocol on
the Property Rights of Returning Persons,5
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1001, No. 14691.
Ibid., vol. 1520, No. 26363.
3
Ibid., vol. 189, No. 2545.
4
Ibid., vol. 606, No. 8791.
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