A/HRC/7/69
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Protection
− To carry out advocacy on behalf of refugees;
− To urge the governments to ratify, domesticate and implement regional and
international instruments regarding the rights of refugees;
− To partner with the UNHCR and other organisations to guarantee international
principles relating to refugees such as the principle of non-refoulement;
− To ensure sustained livelihoods of refugees regarding health, education and other
aspects;
− To work with government to prevent military activities and all kind of violence
including sexual violence in refugee camps;
− To strive to find durable solutions for refugees i.e. voluntary repatriation, local
integration and resettlement in a third country.
(a)
Stateless persons
With regards to Stateless persons the conference resolves:
¾ To elaborate mechanisms to identify all stateless persons in order understand
statelessness on the continent;
¾ To assess the problems arising from statelessness;
¾ To evaluate and review existing legislations on citizenship and nationality and ensure
that they do not create situations that could lead to statelessness;
¾ To urge their governments to establish an efficient registration mechanisms;
¾ To adopt measures that shall eliminate statelessness;
¾ To encourage and strengthen regional and international cooperation to be able to deal
with the situation of statelessness.
1.
Welcome the support given to the sixth Conference by OHCHR, UNHCR, the
Brookings Institution-University of Bern project on Internal displacement, the Organisation
Internationale de la Francophonie and other partners;
2.
Call for direct contributions from the African National Human Rights Institutions
and continued assistance, substantive and financial, by international and regional
intergovernmental organizations and other partners;
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