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10. Acknowledges the desirability of comprehensive approaches by the international community to the
problems of refugees and displaced persons, including addressing root causes, strengthening emergency
preparedness and response, providing effective protection and achieving durable solutions;
11. Recognizes the value of comprehensive regional approaches in which the High Commissioner has
played a significant part in both countries of origin and countries of asylum, and encourages States, in
coordination and cooperation with each other and with international organizations, if applicable, to consider
adopting protection-based comprehensive and regional approaches that conform fully with universally
recognized standards and respond to particular regional initiatives, circumstances and protection needs;
12. Reaffirms that voluntary repatriation is the ideal solution to refugee problems, and calls upon
countries of origin, countries of asylum, the Office of the High Commissioner and the international
community as a whole to do everything possible to enable refugees to exercise their right to return home in
safety and with dignity;
13. Reiterates the right of all persons to return to their country, and emphasizes in this regard the prime
responsibility of countries of origin for establishing conditions that allow voluntary repatriation of refugees
in safety and with dignity, and, in recognition of the obligation of all States to accept the return of their
nationals, calls upon all States to facilitate the return of their nationals who have sought asylum and have
been determined not to be refugees;
14. Calls upon all States to promote conditions conducive to the return of refugees and to support their
sustainable reintegration by providing countries of origin with necessary rehabilitation and development
assistance in conjunction, as appropriate, with the Office of the High Commissioner and relevant development
agencies, urges the Office of the High Commissioner, within its mandate and at the request of the
Government concerned and in view of the relationship between safeguarding human rights and preventing
conditions that give rise to refugee outflows, to strengthen its support of national efforts at legal and judicial
capacity-building, where necessary, in cooperation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights, and, in view of creating conditions furthering reconciliation and long-term development in countries
of return, also urges the Office of the High Commissioner to strengthen its cooperation and coordination with
relevant development agencies;
15. Calls upon States to adopt an approach that is sensitive to gender-related concerns and to ensure
that women whose claims to refugee status are based upon a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons
enumerated in the 1951 Convention3 and the 1967 Protocol4 relating to the Status of Refugees, including
persecution through sexual violence or other gender-related persecution, are recognized as refugees, and
encourages the Office of the High Commissioner to continue and to strengthen its efforts for the protection
of refugee women;
16. Urges States and relevant parties to respect and observe principles of international human rights,
humanitarian and refugee law that are of particular relevance to safeguarding the rights of child and
adolescent refugees, and, noting the particular vulnerability of refugee children to being forcibly exposed to
the risks of injury, exploitation and death in connection with armed conflict, urges all States and concerned
parties to take all possible measures to protect child and adolescent refugees, including, in particular, from
all forms of violence, exploitation and abuse, and to prevent their separation from their families;
17. Calls upon all Governments and other donors to demonstrate their international solidarity and
burden-sharing with countries of asylum through efforts aimed at continuing to alleviate the burden borne
by States, in particular developing countries, countries in transition and countries with limited resources, that,
due to their location, host large numbers of refugees and asylum-seekers, to contribute to the programmes
of the Office of the High Commissioner and, taking into account the effects on countries of asylum of the
increasing requirements of large refugee populations and the need to widen the donor base and to achieve
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