The Bangkok Principles on the Status and Treatment of Refugee
Merrill Smith, Advisor to the Fahamu Refugee Trust, contributed this article highlighting the usefulness of the Bangkok Principles.
The Bangkok Principles. Never heard of them? Don’t feel too bad. Many seasoned refugee advocates haven’t either but they should soon, so now might be a good Nme to read up!
The 1966 Bangkok Principles on the Status and Treatment of Refugees, or ‘Bangkok Principles’, are a product of the Asian‐African Legal Consultave Organization (AALCO), an international governmental body based in New Delhi. It was originally known as the Asian Legal Consultative Committee and formed shortly after the 1955 Bandung Conference in Indonesia, one of the formative meetings of the Non‐Aligned Movement of less developed States that sought to steer a neutral path during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. AALCO currently has 47 Member States in Africa, Asia and the Middle East,including — notably for our purposes — the following 23 that are not party to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees: Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal,North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Syria, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates, i.e., about
half the States that have not ratified the Convention or its Protocol.
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The Bangkok Principles. Never heard of them? Don’t feel too bad. Many seasoned refugee advocates haven’t either but they should soon, so now might be a good Nme to read up!
The 1966 Bangkok Principles on the Status and Treatment of Refugees, or ‘Bangkok Principles’, are a product of the Asian‐African Legal Consultave Organization (AALCO), an international governmental body based in New Delhi. It was originally known as the Asian Legal Consultative Committee and formed shortly after the 1955 Bandung Conference in Indonesia, one of the formative meetings of the Non‐Aligned Movement of less developed States that sought to steer a neutral path during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. AALCO currently has 47 Member States in Africa, Asia and the Middle East,including — notably for our purposes — the following 23 that are not party to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees: Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal,North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Syria, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates, i.e., about
half the States that have not ratified the Convention or its Protocol.
Continue reading the .pdf document here: http://www.srlan.org/sites/srlan/files/fileuploads/FRLANDec2011.pdf
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