Status of Persons Refusing Service in Military or Police Forces Used to Enforce Apartheid

A/RES/33/165View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1979.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Apartheid Conscientious Objectors Refugee Protection Refugee Status Territorial Asylum

What’s in this document?

4 operative paragraphs

Recognizes the right of all persons to refuse service in military or police forces which are used to enforce apartheid;

Calls upon Member States to grant asylum or safe transit to another State, in the spirit of the Declaration on Territorial Asylum,79 to persons compelled to leave their country of nationality solely because of a conscientious objection to assisting in the enforcement of apartheid through service in military or police forces;

Urges Member States to consider favourably the granting to such persons of all the rights and benefits accorded to refugees under existing legal instruments;

Calls upon appropriate United Nations bodies, including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the specialized agencies and non-governmental organizations, to provide all necessary assistance to such persons.

75 Resolution 217 A (III).

76 Final Act of the International Conference on Human Rights, Teheran, 22 April-13 May 1968 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.68.XIV.2), chap. II.

77 Report of the World Conference for Action against Apartheid, Lagos, 22-26 August 1977 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.77.XlV.2 and corrigendum), sect. X.

78 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-third Session, Supplement No. 22 (A/33/22 and Corr.I).

79 Resolution 2112 (XXII), annex.

80 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1978, Supplement No. 4 (E/1978/34), chap. XXVI, sect. A.

81 Resolution B86 (XIV).

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