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Conclusion on youth 2016, para. 5
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- Calls upon the international community to provide the necessary support and resources for UNHCR, concerned States and partners, to meet the specific and diverse needs and build the capacities of youth of concern to UNHCR;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Local Integration 2005, para. (p)
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- Encourages UNHCR to develop and apply appropriate standards and indicators that account for age and gender considerations in local integration and self-reliance programs;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Refugee Women 1988, para. 1
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- Expressed appreciation for the Note on Refugee Women (A/AC.96/XXXIX/CRP.1), particularly its emphasis on the interdependence of the problems and special needs of refugee women in regard to assistance, protection and durable solutions;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1988
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion on youth 2016, para. 4
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- Encourages systematic collection and use of reliable age and sex disaggregated data on youth of concern to UNHCR, while respecting their privacy and the principle of confidentiality, to ensure that their specific and diverse needs can be more effectively met;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion on youth 2016, para. 3
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- Encourages UNHCR, States and relevant stakeholders to proactively identify ways to engage youth in protection and assistance programmes, in youth strategies and action plans as appropriate, including through their meaningful participation and representation in their community management and decision-making processes;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion on youth 2016, para. 2
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- Encourages UNHCR, States and relevant stakeholders to pursue ongoing engagement, consultation and activities with the active participation of youth of concern to UNHCR, including the Global Refugee Youth Consultations, as appropriate;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Youth
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion on Protracted Refugee Situations 2009, para. 17
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- Mindful that there are compelling legal, protection, health, social and economic problems in all situations which can become protracted and should therefore also receive due attention,
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2009
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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General Conclusion On International Protection 2008, para. (h)
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- Recognizes the importance for States to promote an age, gender and diversity-sensitive approach, taking into account such information in the implementation of applicable international refugee instruments;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2008
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
General Conclusion On International Protection 2008, para. (f)
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- Commends UNHCR for further pursuing its age, gender and diversity mainstreaming (AGDM) approach aimed at ensuring gender equality and equal enjoyment of rights, regardless of age, gender or background;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2008
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (o) i
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- [Developing medium-term responses for individuals includes partnerships and actions to:] monitor on an ongoing basis initiatives taken with regard to individual safety, well-being and needs and ensure accountability for actions taken;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Year
- 2006
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Conclusion On Local Integration 2005, para. 13
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- Recognizing the positive contributions, including economic benefits, which refugees who integrate locally or who are allowed to become self-reliant could make to host countries and communities,
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Conclusion On International Protection 1998, para. (l)
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- Notes that 1999 has been declared the International Year of Older Persons, and calls upon UNHCR to make renewed efforts to ensure that the rights, needs and dignity of elderly refugees are fully respected and addressed through appropriate programme activities;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1998
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Refugee Children and Adolescents 1997, para. (b) v
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- [Urges States and concerned parties to take all possible measures to protect child and adolescent refugees, inter alia, by:] ensuring access to education, and the right of the child to freedom of thought, conscience and religion;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1997
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Refugee Children and Adolescents 1997, para. 2
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- Conscious of the human rights and dignity of all refugee children and adolescents, and that, due to their specific needs and vulnerability within the broader refugee population, they need to be among the first to receive protection and assistance in any refugee situation,
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1997
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Refugee Protection and Sexual Violence 1993, para. (j)
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- Recommends the establishment by States of training programmes designed to ensure that those involved in the refugee status determination process are adequately sensitized to issues of gender and culture;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1993
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Refugee Protection and Sexual Violence 1993, para. (e)
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- Recommends the development by States of appropriate guidelines on women asylum-seekers, in recognition of the fact that women refugees often experience persecution differently from refugee men;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1993
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Refugee Protection and Sexual Violence 1993, para. (d)
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- Supports the recognition as refugees of persons whose claim to refugee status is based upon a well- founded fear of persecution, through sexual violence, for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1993
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Cessation of Status 1992, para. (d)
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- Recognizes therefore that all refugees affected by a group or class decision to apply these cessation clauses must have the possibility, upon request, to have such application in their cases reconsidered on grounds relevant to their individual case;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1992
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Note on International Protection 1990, para. (a) x
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- [Takes note of the High Commissioner's emphasis in the Note on International Protection on the following:] encouragement to regional bodies or groupings more actively to contribute to positive resolution of problems in their respective regions;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 1990
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Refugee Women 1989, para. (j)
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- Encouraged the High Commissioner to make additional efforts to raise public awareness of the specific situation of refugee women and recommended the fortieth anniversary as an opportunity to emphasize refugee women as active participants of UNHCR's programmes.
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1989
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Refugee Women 1989, para. (g)
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- Noted with satisfaction the recruitment of a Senior Coordinator for Refugee Women, the production of guidelines to field offices to identify the special needs and encourage participation of refugee women, and the publication of the revised bibliography on refugee women;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1989
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Refugee Women 1989, para. (a)
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- Expressed appreciation for the Report on Refugee Women (A/AC.96/727) and commended the Office of the High Commissioner on progress towards promoting the participation of refugee women as agents as well as beneficiaries in the planning and implementation of protection and assistance programmes;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1989
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Refugee Children 1987, para. (l)
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- Stressed the need for internationally and nationally supported programmes geared to preventive action, special assistance and rehabilitation for disabled refugee children and encouraged States to participate in the "Twenty or More" Plan providing for the resettlement of disabled refugee children;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Year
- 1987
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Refugee Children 1987, para. (a)
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- Expressed appreciation to the High Commissioner for his Report on Refugee Children (EC/SCP/46) and noted with serious concern the violations of their human rights in different areas of the world and their special needs and vulnerability within the broader refugee population;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1987
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Refugee Women and International Protection 1985, para. (d)
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- Recognized that these problems result from their vulnerable situation which frequently exposes them to physical violence, sexual abuse, and discrimination;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 1985
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Family Reunification 1981, para. 4
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- Given the recognized right of everyone to leave any country including his own, countries of origin should facilitate family reunification by granting exit permission to family members of refugees to enable them to join the refugee abroad.
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1981
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Refugees without an Asylum Country 1979, para. (d)
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- [Considered that States should be guided by the following considerations:] Decisions by States with regard to the granting of asylum shall be made without discrimination as to race, religion, political opinion, nationality or country of origin;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1979
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Conclusion on youth 2016, para. 1
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- Takes note of the contributions of youth through participatory approaches to protection and assistance programmes for themselves and their communities, noting that they are often overlooked in humanitarian situations as a group with specific needs based on their stage of life and development, and who have the potential to make important contributions;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Conclusion on refugees with disabilities and other persons with disabilities protected and assisted by UNHCR 2010, para. (n)
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- Requests UNHCR to provide Member States with periodic updates on the follow-up to this Conclusion, including relevant financial data.
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Conclusion on refugees with disabilities and other persons with disabilities protected and assisted by UNHCR 2010, para. (m)
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- Requests UNHCR to include disability awareness in its policy guidelines and training programmes and to ensure that relevant policies, guidelines and operating standards for UNHCR staff and implementing partners are in line with this Conclusion;
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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