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Author: Mustafa Alio

16 Jun

Symposium on the 1951 Refugee Convention at 75: The 1951 Convention is not a Relic, it is a Warning

[Mustafa Alio is co-Manager of R-SEAT] I do not write about the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (‘the Convention’) as an abstract legal document. I write as someone who was forcibly displaced. My life was shaped by the fact that, at a critical moment, refugee protection was not only charity or sympathy. It was a matter of rights. For...

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