Treatment of foreign nationals, asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants in waiting areas

134. Refugees in Chiapas (two thirds of the total caseload), however, have not yet been given the same favourable migratory treatment as those in Campeche and Quintana Roo.

UNHCR is required to safeguard the fundamental principles of asylum and non refoulement and to ensure that the basic rights of refugees are respected and that they are treated in a decent and humane manner.

It seemed to him, however, that the treatment of women migrants was satisfactory and, in any event, better than that of men.

C. Treatment of civilians

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African refugees were at a considerable disadvantage compared to other refugees whereas all refugees deserved to be treated with dignity and receive equal attention.

21. The Convention and Protocol are not the only binding sources of international standards for the treatment of refugees.

4.How have the standards of fair and equitable treatment, most favoured nation treatment and national treatment been applied under BITs?

C. Treatment of civilians

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) continues to support the protection and treatment of refugees through technical assistance and capacity building.

Some 30,000 people from the republics of the former Soviet Union had also asked to be given shelter.

With regard to substantive issues, discussants indicated that provisions related to, for example, scope and definition, national treatment, most favoured nation treatment, fair and equitable treatment, and expropriation might appear to be straightforward in their formulation, but that difficulties and problems would arise from their application.

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Furthermore, as any other individuals, refugees are entitled to be treated in conformity with internationally recognized human rights standards.

Every year they forward to the Ministry of Public Order the Annual Report on the Protection of Refugees of the Athens Bureau of the U.N. High Commission for refugees, which includes comments on the treatment of women refugees in Greece.

Furthermore, national treatment should be applied in transit services.

11. International protection means first of all securing respect for the basic rights of refugees, including admission to safety and non refoulement, as well as ensuring that refugees are accorded favourable treatment in countries of asylum.

A total of 433 special hardship cases, 143 of them women, qualified for such preferential access during the reporting period.

29. UNHCR has also been concerned about the dangers to which refugee women are regularly exposed.

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The treatment in waiting areas and the conditions of expulsion of refugees and asylum seekers is also a matter of concern for Amnesty International, which expressed its concerns on the occasion of World Refugee Day on 20 June 2005.

19. The events in the Great Lakes region of Africa over the last year perhaps more graphically than any other recent refugee experience brought to the fore the issue of standards of treatment of refugees.

In addition, refugees may become the victims of discriminatory treatment in the country where they seek or where they have been granted asylum.

Not only do undocumented migrants face such treatment, but even legal migrants can be subjected to a similar experience.

36. Given the complex nature of the situation, the Government of Belarus had modified the country s legislative and legal base with a view to improving the internal procedures for granting asylum.

It should also devote more attention to the problems encountered by refugees after voluntary return.

31. UNHCR participated at the commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the quot Bangkok Principles quot ( Principles Concerning Treatment of Refugees ) which were adopted by the Asian African Legal Consultative Committee (AALCC) in 1966.

UNHCR continues to engage in an informal dialogue in matters pertaining to asylum and refugees and has, in the course of 1996, made contributions to this process in such areas as the treatment of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum and the conditions for the reception of asylum seekers.

102. The Committee is concerned about the treatment of asylum seekers and refugees and their children, and their placement in detention centres.

1031. The Committee is concerned about the treatment of asylum seekers and refugees and their children, and their placement in detention centres.

Under the laws of the Republic of Korea, permanent residents were treated more favourably than non residents.

32. Reports concerning the situation of immigrants and asylum seekers and practices affecting such persons by member States of the Council of Europe have come to the attention of the Working Group.

National treatment

The most basic treatment to which refugees are entitled is not to be returned or sent back to a territory where their lives or freedom are threatened.

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Refugee women who gain asylum face even greater difficulties in host countries.

UNHCR has also faced constraints in monitoring child recruitment.

It recommends, in particular, that the same treatment be granted to refugees of Turkmen, Uzbek, or other ethnic origin such as those coming from Afghanistan.

Although the causes of statelessness often are different from those which give rise to refugee displacements, stateless persons face many of the same problems and disabilities as do refugees.

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Most favoured nation treatment

D. Standards of treatment

While noting that a reform of the legal sector has been undertaken and that the issue of access to justice is being considered, the Committee remains concerned about the difficulties of access to justice, especially for the poor and members of minority groups (arts. 5 and 6).

Convinced of the need to provide humane treatment and protect the full human rights of migrants,