Ad Hoc Committee on Statelessness and Related Problems, Israel: Proposal for a Systematic Rearrangement of the Chapters and Articles of the Draft Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees

UN Economic and Social Council, Ad Hoc Committee on Statelessness and Related Problems, Israel: Proposal for a Systematic Rearrangement of the Chapters and Articles of the Draft Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, E/AC.32/L.29, UN Ad Hoc Committee on Refugees and Stateless Persons, 7 February 1950, https://www.refworld.org/legal/leghist/ahcrsp/1950/en/37321 [accessed 19 April 2024]
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The previously used numbers and the symbols of the documents containing the texts adopted by the Committee are in brackets. Some articles are unnumbered. Neither the preamble nor the clause of extension of the benefits of the convention to stateless non-refugees (article 33) have been discussed. The symbol for articles 32-35, 37-40, which have likely not been discussed by the full Committee, is E/AC.32/2 and Corr.1 (the Secretariat's draft.)

PREAMBLE

Chapter I:       General Provisions

ARTICLE 1

Definition of the term "refugee"

 

(Article 1, E/AC.32/L.20/Rev.1, sections A,C,D)

ARTICLE 2

General obligations

 

(Article 10, E/AC.32/L.28)

ARTICLE 3

Continuity of residence

 

(Article 29, E/AC.32/L.26)

ARTICLE 4

Non-discrimination of refugees

 

(E/AC.32/L.28)

ARTICLE 5

Exemption from reciprocity

 

(Article 8, E/AC.32/L.28)

ARTICLE 6

Exemption from exceptional measures

 

(Article 25, E/AC.32/L.26)

ARTICLE 7

Naturalization

 

(Article 28, E/AC.32/L.26)

Chapter II:      Legal status

ARTICLE 8

Personal status

 

(Article 4, E/AC.32/L.7)

ARTICLE 9

Movable and immovable property

 

(Article 5, E/AC.32/L.7)

ARTICLE 10

Intellectual and industrial property

 

(Article 6, E/AC.32/L.7)

ARTICLE 11

Right of association

 

(Article 7, E/AC.32/L.7)

ARTICLE 12

The right to sue and be sued

 

(Article 9, E/AC.32/L.8)

Chapter III:     Condition of employment

ARTICLE 13

Wage-earning employment

 

(Article 13, E/AC.32/L.11)

ARTICLE 14

Self-employment

 

(Article 14, E/AC.32/L.11)

ARTICLE 15

Liberal professions

 

(Article 15, E/AC.32/L.11 and 13)

Chapter IV:     Welfare

ARTICLE 16

Rationing

 

(Article 18, E/AC.32/L.14)

ARTICLE 17

Housing

 

(E/AC.32/L.28)

ARTICLE 18

Public education

 

(Article 20, E/AC.32/L.14)

ARTICLE 19

Public relief

 

(E/AC.32/L.14)

ARTICLE 20

Social security

 

(Article 16 and 17, E/AC.32/L.13)

Chapter V:      Administrative system

ARTICLE 21

Administrative assistance

 

(Article 23, E/AC.32/L.21)

ARTICLE 22

Freedom of circulation

 

(Article, E/AC.32/L.14)

ARTICLE 23

Identity papers

 

(Article 21, E/AC.32/L.14)

ARTICLE 24

Travel documents

 

(Article 22, E/AC.32/L.19/Rev.1)

ARTICLE 25

Fiscal charges

 

(Article 11, E/AC.32/L.8)

ARTICLE 26

Currency restrictions

 

(E/AC.32/L.28)

ARTICLE 27

Expulsion of lawfully resident refugee

 

(Article 24, second article, E/AC.32/L.28)

ARTICLE 28

Prohibition of expulsion to territories where the life or freedom of the refugees is threatened

 

(Article 24, first article, E/AC.32/L.28)

ARTICLE 29

Treatment of irregular refugees

 

(Article 24, third article, E/AC.32/L.28)

Chapter VI:     Implementation and transitory provisions

ARTICLE 30

Measures of implementation of the Convention

 

(Article 30, E/AC.32/L.26)

ARTICLE 31

Co-operation of the national authorities with the United Nations

 

(Article 26-27, E/AC.32/L.26)

ARTICLE 32

Extension of the convention to new categories of refugees

 

(Article 1, section B, E/AC.32/L.20/Rev.1)

ARTICLE 33

Application of the convention to stateless non-refugees

ARTICLE 34

Relations with previous conventions

 

(Article 31, E/AC.32/L.26)

Chapter VII:    Final clauses

ARTICLE 35

Languages and date

 

(Article 40, E/AC.32/L.2)

ARTICLE 36

Signature, ratification and accession

 

(Article 33, E/AC.32/L.2)

ARTICLE 37

Colonial clause

 

(Article 36, E/AC.32/L.26)

ARTICLE 38

Reservation

 

(Article 35, E/AC.32/2)

ARTICLE 39

Entry into force

 

(Article 34, E/AC.32/2)

ARTICLE 40

Registration of the convention

ARTICLE 41

Settlement of disputes

 

(Article 32, E/AC.32/2)

ARTICLE 42

Duration and denunciation

 

(Article 37, E/AC.32/2)

ARTICLE 43

Notifications by the Secretary-General

 

(Article 39, E/AC.32/2)

ARTICLE 44

Revision

 

(Article 38, E/AC.32/2)

 

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