United Nations
A/RES/62/125
General Assembly
Distr.: General
24 January 2008
Sixty-second session
Agenda item 42
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2007
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[on the report of the Third Committee (A/62/431)]
62/125. 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
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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,
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Recognizing the particular vulnerability of women and children among
refugees and other persons of concern, including exposure to discrimination and
sexual and physical abuse,
Recognizing also that refugees, internally displaced persons and, in particular,
women and children are at an increased risk of exposure to HIV/AIDS, malaria and
other infectious diseases,
Takes note of the reports of the Secretary-General 5 and the United
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Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; 6
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Notes the need for African States to address resolutely root causes of all
forms of forced displacement in Africa and to foster peace, stability and prosperity
throughout the African continent so as to forestall refugee flows;
Notes with great concern that, despite all of the efforts made so far by the
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United Nations, the African Union and others, the situation of refugees and
displaced persons in Africa remains precarious, and calls upon States and other
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1001, No. 14691.
Ibid., vol. 1520, No. 26363.
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Ibid., vol. 189, No. 2545.
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Ibid., vol. 606, No. 8791.
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A/62/316.
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-second Session, Supplement No. 12 (A/62/12).
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