A/RES/72/152
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 64
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2017
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/72/433 and A/72/433/Corr.1)]
72/152.
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 normative frameworks for the protecti on of
and assistance to internally displaced persons,
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 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,
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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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