Refugee Protection and Sexual Violence 1993, para. 1
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Noting with grave concern the widespread occurrence of sexual violence in violation of the fundamental right to personal security as recognized in international human rights and humanitarian law, which inflicts serious harm and injury to the victims, their families and communities, and which has been a cause of coerced displacement including refugee movements in some areas of the world,
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)
Movement
Violence
Person(s) affected
Families
Persons on the move
Year
1993
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
ExCom Conclusion No. 73, Refugee Protection and Sexual Violence (1993), PP 1.