United Nations
A/RES/71/173
General Assembly
Distr.: General
3 February 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 60
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2016
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/71/478)]
71/173. 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 mark a significant step towards
strengthening the national and regional nor mative frameworks for the protection of
and assistance to internally displaced persons,
Recognizing the particular vulnerability of women and children among
refugees and displaced persons, including exposure to discrimination and sexual and
physical abuse, violence and exploitation and the recruitment and use of children by
parties to armed conflict in violation of applicable international law, and in this
regard acknowledging the importance of preventing, responding to and addressing
sexual and gender-based violence as well as violations and abuses committed
against refugee, returnee and displaced children,
Gravely concerned about the rising number of refugees and displaced persons
in various parts of the continent,
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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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