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7.2 - Summary Conclusions: exclusion from refugee status, expert roundtable, Lisbon, May 2001

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 August 2009

Erika Feller
Affiliation:
Director Department of International Protection with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva
Volker Türk
Affiliation:
Chief of the Protection Policy and Legal Advice Section of UNHCR's Department of International Protection in Geneva
Frances Nicholson
Affiliation:
Research and editorial consultant on refugee protection and human rights issues
Erika Feller
Affiliation:
UNHCR, Geneva
Volker Türk
Affiliation:
UNHCR, Geneva
Frances Nicholson
Affiliation:
UNHCR, Geneva
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Summary

The first day of the Lisbon expert roundtable addressed the question of the exclusion clauses of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, basing the discussion on a background paper by Professor Geoff Gilbert, University of Essex, ‘Current Issues in the Application of the Exclusion Clauses’. In addition, roundtable participants were provided with the UNHCR Guidelines on the Exclusion Clauses and written contributions from the Government of the Netherlands and the Government of Turkey. Subsequently, written contributions were received from government experts of Canada, France, Turkey, and the United Kingdom and will be reflected in the report. Participants included thirty-two experts from twenty-five countries, drawn from governments, NGOs, academia, the judiciary, and the legal profession. Professor Georges Abi-Saab, former Justice of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, moderated the discussion.

In view of the limited time available, the discussion focused on those aspects of the background paper and the UNHCR Guidelines that were considered to be in need of clarification. The paragraphs below, while not representing the individual views of each participant or necessarily of UNHCR, reflect broadly the issues emerging from the discussion.

General considerations

  1. In the wake of the Second World War, the drafters of the Convention contemplated certain types of crime to be so horrendous that they justified the exclusion of the perpetrators from the benefits of refugee status. In this sense, the perpetrators are considered ‘undeserving of refugee protection’.

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Refugee Protection in International Law
UNHCR's Global Consultations on International Protection
, pp. 479 - 485
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2003

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