Civilian and Humanitarian Character of Asylum 2002, para. 7
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Reiterating that refugee camps and settlements should have an exclusively civilian and humanitarian character, that the grant of asylum is a peaceful and humanitarian act which should not be regarded as unfriendly by another State, as stated in the 1969 OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa and a number of Executive Committee conclusions, and that all actors, including refugees themselves, have the obligation to cooperate in ensuring the peaceful and humanitarian character of refugee camps and settlements,
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)
Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
Persons on the move
Year
2002
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
ExCom Conclusion No. 94, Civilian and Humanitarian Character of Asylum (2002), PP 7.