Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

A/RES/42/109View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 103b Question of the continuation of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, published in 1988.

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42 documents · 1987–2025

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 2025).

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/187	Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	6,895	–
2024	A/RES/79/156	Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	6,823	–
2023	A/RES/78/184	Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	6,064	–
2022	A/RES/77/198	Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	6,053	–
2022	A/RES/76/143	Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	5,375	–

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Armed Incidents Child Refugees Refugee Assistance Refugee Camps Refugee Protection Refugee Status Refugees Repatriation Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Territorial Asylum Treaties Women Refugees

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6 operative paragraphs

Strongly reaffirms the fundamental nature of the function of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to provide intemational protection and the need for Govemments to co-operate fully with his Office in order to facilitate the etfective exercise of this function, in particular by acceding to and implementing the relevant intemational and regional refugee instruments and by scrupulously observing the principies of asylum and nonrefoulement;

Notes with particular concern the continued violation of the principie of non-refoulement in certain situations, and stresses the need to strengthen measures to protect refugees against such action;

Appeals to ali States that have not yet become parties to the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating

to the Status of Refugees to consider acceding to these instruments in order to enhance their universal character;

Condemns ali violations of the rights and safety of refugees and asylum-seekers, in particular those perpetrated by military or armed attacks against refugee camps and settlements and other forms of violence;

Endorses the conclusions on military and armed attacks on refugee camps and settlements adopted by the Executive Committee of the Programme of the High Commissioner at its thirty-eighth session, 113 and calls upon ali States to observe these principies;

Endorses the conclusions on refugee children

adopted by the Executive Committee ofthe Programme of the High Commissioner at its thirty-eighth session, 114 and urges States to extend their full co-operation to the High Commissioner so as to ensure that the special needs of refugee children are met;

109 Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-second Session, Suf~/ement No. 12 (A/42/12).

o lbid., Supplement No. 12A (A/42/12/Add.l).

111 Ibid., Forty-second Session, Third Committee, 45th and 50th 112 [bid., Forty-second Session. Supp/ement No. 12A (A/42/12/ meetings, and corrigendum.

Add.1), para. 210, sect. C.

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116 A/42/521-S/19085, annex. For the printed text, see Official Records of the Security Counci/, Forty-second Year, Supplement far Ju/y, 113 !bid., para. 206.

Au~ust and September 1987, document S/19085, annex. 114 !bid., para. 205.

1 7 Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-second Session, 115 A/41/324, annex.

Supplement No. 12A (A/42/12/Add.l), para. 208.

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