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Symposium on the 1951 Refugee Convention at 75: The Continuing Relevance of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees to the Judiciary in Canada
[The Honourable Russel W. Zinn is a retired Justice of the Federal Court of Canada and President of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges] The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees [the Convention] was adopted on July 28, 1951. It is the foundational international treaty defining who a refugee is and their rights. Originally limited to European refugees...