Civilian and Humanitarian Character of Asylum 2002, para. (a)
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Acknowledges that host States have the primary responsibility to ensure the civilian and humanitarian character of asylum by, inter alia, making all efforts to locate refugee camps and settlements at a reasonable distance from the border, maintaining law and order, curtailing the flow of arms into refugee camps and settlements, preventing their use for the internment of prisoners of war, as well as through the disarmament of armed elements and the identification, separation and internment of combatants;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
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N.A.
Topic(s)
Humanitarian
Movement
Person(s) affected
Persons on the move
Year
2002
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
ExCom Conclusion No. 94, Civilian and Humanitarian Character of Asylum (2002), OP (a).