Organization for African Unity Refugee Convention

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The Refugee Convention of the Organization of African Unity is a regionally for Africa applicable international convention , which at a conference of the Organization of African Unity , now African Union , for the protection of refugees , in the September 10, 1969 Addis Ababa was decided.

It is based on the definition of the Geneva Refugee Convention of 1951, but extends it in the refugee definition based on African experiences with liberation wars, civil wars, coups, religious and ethnic conflicts and natural disasters. Article I, paragraph 2 reads:

The term refugee is also intended to apply to any person who is forced to relocate to their place of habitual residence because of external aggression, occupation, foreign rule or because of events that seriously disrupt public order in part or in the entire country leave to seek refuge in another place outside their country of origin or nationality.

It leaves out economic refugees, but waives the impracticable requirement of “well-founded fear of persecution” in the case of mass refugee movements. On the other hand, it focused on individual causes of flight that are more important for mass displacement in Africa, such as external aggression, occupation, foreign rule and the general disruption of public order through violent conflicts.

The hallmark of the refugee policy in Africa were refugee camps . 83% of all registered refugees live there. The sociologist Katharina Inhetveen observed: "The host states [often] lack the resources to meet the responsibility they have under international law." Registration, administration and care of refugees takes place i. d. Usually through the UN refugee agency UNHCR .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi: Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in Africa . In: The African Regional Human Rights System . Ed .: Manisuli Ssenyonjo, Njihoff 2012, ISBN 978-9004-21814-7 , p. 177 ff.
  2. ^ Franz Nuscheler: International Migration. Escape and asylum . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1995, ISBN 978-3-322-95747-4 , p. 76 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ Federal Agency for Civic Education, The true "refugee crisis": Flight and displacement in Africa , February 28, 2018
  4. ^ Federal Agency for Civic Education, The true "refugee crisis": Flight and displacement in Africa , February 28, 2018