Can the UN’s Refugee Convention survive?
- At the end of World War II, great swaths of Europe lay in ruins and millions had been forcibly displaced.
- The humanitarian disaster prompted the United Nations to agree on a comprehensive legal framework outlining states’ obligations to protect refugees.
- This became the 1951 Refugee Convention, which initially applied to Europeans but was subsequently amended in 1967 to apply to all those fleeing persecution.
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- At the end of World War II, great swaths of Europe lay in ruins and millions had been forcibly displaced.
- The humanitarian disaster prompted the United Nations to agree on a comprehensive legal framework outlining states’ obligations to protect refugees.
- This became the 1951 Refugee Convention, which initially applied to Europeans but was subsequently amended in 1967 to apply to all those fleeing persecution.
Sources: Al Jazeera