This completed the unfinished work of the Refugee Convention three years prior.

(c) Do local conditions in the proposed site of internal protection meet the standard of protection prescribed by the Refugee Convention?

In 2011 the organisation celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Refugee Convention.

And it reversed a longstanding American interpretation of the Refugee Convention as prohibiting forcible return to dangerous situations.

Migrant workers are not entitled to a "temporary protection group" status under the UN's Refugee Convention.

Nevertheless it secured the agreement of 14 countries (including a reluctant Great Britain) to the Refugee Convention of 1933.

Countries that have ratified the Refugee Convention are obliged to protect refugees that are on their territory, in accordance with its terms.

This means that even States that are not party to the 1951 Refugee Convention must respect the principle of non-refoulement.

First of all, the provisions should not be confined to persons who apply for asylum on the basis of the Refugee Convention.

We have an agreed legal framework for their protection - the 1951 Refugee Convention.