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Convention
relating to the Status of Refugees, 189 U.N.T.S. 150, entered
into force April 22, 1954.
PREAMBLE
The High Contracting Parties,
Considering that the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights approved on 10 December 1948 by the
General Assembly have affirmed the principle that human beings
shall enjoy fundamental rights and freedoms without discrimination,
Considering that the United Nations has, on various occasions,
manifested its profound concern for refugees and endeavoured to
assure refugees the widest possible exercise of these fundamental
rights and freedoms,
Considering that it is desirable to revise and consolidate previous
international agreements relating to the status of refugees and
to extend the scope of and the protection accorded by such instruments
by means of a new agreement,
Considering that the grant of asylum may place unduly heavy burdens
on certain countries, and that a satisfactory solution of a problem
of which the United Nations has recognized the international-
scope and nature cannot therefore be achieved without international
co-operation,
Expressing the wish that all States, recognizing the social and
humanitarian nature of the problem of refugees, will do everything
within their power to prevent this problem from becoming a cause
of tension between States,
Noting that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
is charged with the task of supervising international conventions
providing for the protection of refugees, and recognizing that
the effective co-ordination of measures taken to deal with this
problem will depend upon the co-operation of States with the High
Commissioner,
Have agreed as follows:
CHAPTER I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1. - Definition of the term "refugee"
A. For the purposes of the present Convention, the term "refugee,,
shall apply to any person who:
(1) Has been considered a refugee under the Arrangements of 12
May 1926 and 30 June 1928 or under the Conventions of 28 October
1933 and 10 February 1938, the Protocol of 14 September 1939 or
the Constitution of the International Refugee Organization;
Decisions of non-eligibility taken by the International Refugee
Organization during the period of its activities shall not prevent
the status of refugee being accorded to persons who fulfil the
conditions of paragraph 2 of this section;
(2) As a result of events occurring before I January 1951 and
owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of
race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social
group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality
and is unable, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself
of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality
and being outside the country of his former habitual residence
as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear,
is unwilling to return to it.
In the case of a person who has more than one nationality, the
term "the country of his nationality" shall mean each of the countries
of which he is a national, and a person shall not be deemed to
be lacking the protection of the country of his nationality if,
without any valid reason based on well-founded fear, he has not
availed himself of the protection of one of the countries of which
he is a national.
B. (1) For the purposes of this Convention, the words "events
occurring before I January 1951" in article 1, section A, shall
be understood to mean either (a) "events occurring in Europe before
I January 1951"; or (b) "events occurring in Europe or elsewhere
before I January 1951"; and each Contracting State shall make
a declaration at the time of signature, ratification or accession,
specifying which of these meanings it applies for the purpose
of its obligations under this Convention.
(2) Any Contracting State which has adopted alternative (a) may
at any time extend its obligations by adopting alternative (b)
by means of a notification addressed to the Secretary-General
of the United Nations.
C. This Convention shall cease to apply to any person falling
under the terms of section A if:
(1) He has voluntarily re-availed himself of the protection of
the country of his nationality; or
(2) Having lost his nationality, he has voluntarily reacquired
it; or
(3) He has acquired a new nationality, and enjoys the protection
of the country of his new nationality; or
(4) He has voluntarily re-established himself in the country
which he left or outside which he remained owing to fear of persecution;
or
(5) He can no longer, because the circumstances in connection
with which he has been recognized as a refugee have ceased to
exist, continue to refuse to avail himself of the protection of
the country of his nationality;
Provided that this paragraph shall not apply to a refugee falling
under section A (I) of this article who is able to invoke compelling
reasons arising out of previous persecution for refusing to avail
himself of the protection of the country of nationality;
(6) Being a person who has no nationality he is, because the
circumstances in connection with which he has been recognized
as a refugee have ceased to exist, able to return to the country
of his former habitual residence;
Provided that this paragraph shall not apply to a refugee falling
under section A (I) of this article who is able to invoke compelling
reasons arising out of previous persecution for refusing to return
to the country of his former habitual residence.
D. This Convention shall not apply to persons who are at present
receiving from organs or agencies of the United Nations other
than the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees protection
or assistance.
When such protection or assistance has ceased for any reason,
without the position of such persons being definitively settled
in accordance with the relevant resolutions adopted by the General
Assembly of the United Nations, these persons shall ipso facto
be entitled to the benefits of this Convention.
E. This Convention shall not apply to a person who is recognized
by the competent authorities of the country in which he has taken
residence as having the rights and obligations which are attached
to the possession of the nationality of that country.
F. The provisions of this Convention shall not apply to any person
with respect to whom there are serious reasons for considering
that.
(a) He has committed a crime against peace, a war crime, or a
crime against humanity, as defined in the international instruments
drawn up to make provision in respect of such crimes;
(b) He has committed a serious non-political crime outside the
country of refuge prior to his admission to that country as a
refugee;
(c) He has been guilty of acts contrary to the purposes and principles
of the United Nations.
Article 2. - General obligations
Every refugee has duties to the country in which he finds himself,
which require in particular that he conform to its laws and regulations
as well as to measures taken for the maintenance of public order.
Article 3. - Non-discrimination
The Contracting States shall apply the provisions of this Convention
to refugees without discrimination as to race, religion or country
of origin.
Article 4. - Religion
The Contracting States shall accord to refugees within their
territories treatment at least as favourable as that accorded
to their nationals with respect to freedom to practise their religion
and freedom as regards the religious education of their children.
Article 5. - Rights granted apart from this Convention
Nothing in this Convention shall be deemed to impair any rights
and benefits granted by a Contracting State to refugees apart
from this Convention.
Article 6. - The term "in the same circumstances"
For the purposes of this Convention, the term "in the same circumstances,,
implies that any requirements (including requirements as to length
and conditions of sojourn or residence) which the particular individual
would have to fulfil for the enjoyment of the right in question,
if he were not a refugee, must be fulfilled by him, with the exception
of requirements which by their nature a refugee is incapable of
fulfilling.
Article 7. - Exemption from reciprocity
1. Except where this Convention contains more favourable provisions,
a Contracting State shall accord to refugees the same treatment
as is accorded to aliens generally.
2. After a period of three years' residence, all refugees shall
enjoy exemption from legislative reciprocity in the territory
of the Contracting States.
3. Each Contracting State shall continue to accord to refugees
the rights and benefits to which they were already entitled, in
the absence of reciprocity, at the date of entry into force of
this Convention for that State.
4. The Contracting States shall consider favourably the possibility
of according to refugees, in the absence of reciprocity, rights
and benefits beyond those to which they are entitled according
to paragraphs 2 and 3, and to extending exemption from reciprocity
to refugees who do not fulfil the conditions provided for in paragraphs
2 and 3.
5. The provisions of paragraphs 2 and 3 apply both to the rights
and benefits referred to in articles 13, 18, 19, 21 and 22 of
this Convention and to rights and benefits for which this Convention
does not provide.
Article 8. - Exemption from exceptional measures
With regard to exceptional measures which may be taken against
the person, property or interests of nationals of a foreign State,
the Contracting States shall not apply such measures to a refugee
who is formally a national of the said State solely on account
of such nationality. Contracting States which, under their legislation,
are prevented from applying the general principle expressed in
this article, shall, in appropriate cases, grant exemptions in
favour of such refugees.
Article 9. - Provisional measures
Nothing in this Convention shall prevent a Contracting State,
in time of war or other grave and exceptional circumstances, from
taking provisionally measures which it considers to be essential
to the national security in the case of a particular person, pending
a determination by the Contracting State that that person is in
fact a refugee and that the continuance of such measures is necessary
in his case in the interests of national security.
Article 10. - Continuity of residence
1. Where a refugee has been forcibly displaced during the Second
World War and removed to the territory of a Contracting State,
and is resident there, the period of such enforced sojourn shall
be considered to have been lawful residence within that territory.
2. Where a refugee has been forcibly displaced during the Second
World War from the territory of a Contracting State and has, prior
to the date of entry into force of this Convention, returned there
for the purpose of taking up residence, the period of residence
before and after such enforced displacement shall be regarded
as one uninterrupted period for any purposes for which uninterrupted
residence is required.
Article 11. - Refugee seamen
In the case of refugees regularly serving as crew members on
board a ship flying the flag of a Contracting State, that State
shall give sympathetic consideration to their establishment on
its territory and the issue of travel documents to them or their
temporary admission to its territory particularly with a view
to facilitating their establishment in another country.
CHAPTER II
JURIDICAL STATUS
Article 12. - Personal status
1. The personal status of a refugee shall be governed by the
law of the country of his domicile or, if he has no domicile,
by the law of the country of his residence.
2. Rights previously acquired by a refugee and dependent on personal
status, more particularly rights attaching to marriage, shall
be respected by a Contracting State, subject to compliance, if
this be necessary, with the formalities required by the law of
that State, provided that the right in question is one which would
have been recognized by the law of that State had he not become
a refugee.
Article 13. - Movable and immovable property
The Contracting States shall accord to a refugee treatment as
favourable as possible and, in any event, not less favourable
than that accorded to aliens generally in the same circumstances,
as regards the acquisition of movable and immovable property and
other rights pertaining thereto, and to leases and other contracts
relating to movable and immovable property.
Article 14. - Artistic rights and industrial property
In respect of the protection of industrial property, such as
inventions, designs or models, trade marks, trade names, and of
rights in literary, artistic and scientific works, a refugee shall
be accorded in the country in which he has his habitual residence
the same protection as is accorded to nationals of that country.
In the territory of any other Contracting States, he shall be
accorded the same protection as is accorded in that territory
to nationals of the country in which he has his habitual residence.
Article 15. - Right of association
As regards non-political and non-profit-making associations and
trade unions the Contracting States shall accord to refugees lawfully
staying in their territory the most favourable treatment accorded
to nationals of a foreign country, in the same circumstances.
Article 16. - Access to courts
1. A refugee shall have free access to the courts of law on the
territory of all Contracting States.
2. A refugee shall enjoy in the Contracting State in which he
has his habitual residence the same treatment as a national in
matters pertaining to access to the courts, including legal assistance
and exemption from cautio judicatum solvi.
3. A refugee shall be accorded in the matters referred to in
paragraph 2 in countries other than that in which he has his habitual
residence the treatment granted to a national of the country of
his habitual residence.
CHAPTER III
GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT
Article 17. - Wage-earning employment
1. The Contracting States shall accord to refugees lawfully staying
in their territory the most favourable treatment accorded to nationals
of a foreign country in the same circumstances, as regards the
right to engage in wage-earning employment.
2. In any case, restrictive measures imposed on aliens or the
employment of aliens for the protection of the national labour
market shall not be applied to a refugee who was already exempt
from them at the date of entry into force of this Convention for
the Contracting State concerned, or who fulfils one of the following
conditions:
(a) He has completed three years' residence in the country;
(b) He has a spouse possessing the nationality of the country
of residence. A refugee may not invoke the benefit of this provision
if he has abandoned his spouse;
(c) He has one or more children possessing the nationality of
the country of residence.
3. The Contracting States shall give sympathetic consideration
to assimilating the rights of all refugees with regard to wage-earning
employment to those of nationals, and in particular of those refugees
who have entered their territory pursuant to programmes of labour
recruitment or under immigration schemes.
Article 18. - Self-employment
The Contracting States shall accord to a refugee lawfully in
their territory treatment as favourable as possible and, in any
event, not less favourable than that accorded to aliens generally
in the same circumstances, as regards the right to engage on his
own account in agriculture, industry, handicrafts and commerce
and to establish commercial and industrial companies.
Article 19. - Liberal professions
1. Each Contracting State shall accord to refugees lawfully staying
in their territory who hold diplomas recognized by the competent
authorities of that State, and who are desirous of practising
a liberal profession, treatment as favourable as possible and,
in any event, not less favourable than that accorded to aliens
generally in the same circumstances.
2. The Contracting States shall use their best endeavours consistently
with their laws and constitutions to secure the settlement of
such refugees in the territories, other than the metropolitan
territory, for whose international relations they are responsible.
CHAPTER IV
WELFARE
Article 20. - Rationing
Where a rationing system exists, which applies to the population
at large and regulates the general distribution of products in
short supply, refugees shall be accorded the same treatment as
nationals.
Article 21. - Housing
As regards housing, the Contracting States, in so far as the
matter is regulated by laws or regulations or is subject to the
control of public authorities, shall accord to refugees lawfully
staying in their territory treatment as favourable as possible
and, in any event, not less favourable than that accorded to aliens
generally in the same circumstances.
Article 22. - Public education
1. The Contracting States shall accord to refugees the same treatment
as is accorded to nationals with respect to elementary education.
2. The Contracting States shall accord to refugees treatment
as favourable as possible, and, in any event, not less favourable
than that accorded to aliens generally in the same circumstances,
with respect to education other than elementary education and,
in particular, as regards access to studies, the recognition of
foreign school certificates, diplomas and degrees, the remission
of fees and charges and the award of scholarships.
Article 23. - Public relief
The Contracting States shall accord to refugees lawfully staying
in their territory the same treatment with respect to public relief
and assistance as is accorded to their nationals.
Article 24. - Labour legislation and social security
1. The Contracting States shall accord to refugees lawfully staying
in their territory the same treatment as is accorded to nationals
in respect of the following matters;
(a) In so far as such matters are governed by laws or regulations
or are subject to the control of administrative authorities: remuneration,
including family allowances where these form part of remuneration,
hours of work, overtime arrangements, holidays with pay, restrictions
on home work, minimum age of employment, apprenticeship and training,
women's work and the work of young persons, and the enjoyment
of the benefits of collective bargaining;
(b) Social security (legal provisions in respect of employment
injury, occupational diseases, maternity, sickness, disability,
old age, death, unemployment, family responsibilities and any
other contingency which, according to national laws or regulations,
is covered by a social security scheme), subject to the following
limitations:
(i) There may be appropriate arrangements for the maintenance
of acquired rights and rights in course of acquisition;
(ii) National laws or regulations of the country of residence
may prescribe special arrangements concerning benefits or portions
of benefits which are payable wholly out of public funds, and
concerning allowances paid to persons who do not fulfil the contribution
conditions prescribed for the award of a normal pension.
2. The right to compensation for the death of a refugee resulting
from employment injury or from occupational disease shall not
be affected by the fact that the residence of the beneficiary
is outside the territory of the Contracting State.
3. The Contracting States shall extend to refugees the benefits
of agreements concluded between them, or which may be concluded
between them in the future, concerning the maintenance of acquired
rights and rights in the process of acquisition in regard to social
security, subject only to the conditions which apply to nationals
of the States signatory to the agreements in question.
4. The Contracting States will give sympathetic consideration
to extending to refugees so far as possible the benefits of similar
agreements which may at any time be in force between such Contracting
States and non- contracting States.
CHAPTER V
ADMINISTRATIVE MEASURES
Article 25. -Administrative assistance
1. When the exercise of a right by a refugee would normally require
the assistance of authorities of a foreign country to whom he
cannot have recourse, the Contracting States in whose territory
he is residing shall arrange that such assistance be afforded
to him by their own authorities or by an international authority.
2. The authority or authorities mentioned in paragraph I shall
deliver or cause to be delivered under their supervision to refugees
such documents or certifications as would normally be delivered
to aliens by or through their national authorities.
3. Documents or certifications so delivered shall stand in the
stead of the official instruments delivered to aliens by or through
their national authorities, and shall be given credence in the
absence of proof to the contrary.
4. Subject to such exceptional treatment as may be granted to
indigent persons, fees may be charged for the services mentioned
herein, but such fees shall be moderate and commensurate with
those charged to nationals for similar services.
5. The provisions of this article shall be without prejudice
to articles 27 and 28.
Article 26. - Freedom of movement
Each Contracting State shall accord to refugees lawfully in its
territory the right to choose their place of residence and to
move freely within its territory subject to any regulations applicable
to aliens generally in the same circumstances.
Article 27. - Identity papers
The Contracting States shall issue identity papers to any refugee
in their territory who does not possess a valid travel document.
Article 28. - Travel documents
1 . The Contracting States shall issue to refugees lawfully staying
in their territory travel documents for the purpose of travel
outside their territory, unless compelling reasons of national
security or public order otherwise require, and the provisions
of the Schedule to this Convention shall apply with respect to
such documents. The Contracting States may issue such a travel
document to any other refugee in their territory; they shall in
particular give sympathetic consideration to the issue of such
a travel document to refugees in their territory who are unable
to obtain a travel document from the country of their lawful residence.
2. Travel documents issued to refugees under previous international
agreements by Parties thereto shall be recognized and treated
by the Contracting States in the same way as if they had been
issued pursuant to this article.
Article 29. - Fiscal charges
1. The Contracting States shall not impose upon refugees duties,
charges or taxes, of any description whatsoever, other or higher
than those which are or may be levied on their nationals in similar
situations.
2. Nothing in the above paragraph shall prevent the application
to refugees of the laws and regulations concerning charges in
respect of the issue to aliens of administrative documents including
identity papers.
Article 30. - Transfer of assets
1. A Contracting State shall, in conformity with its laws and
regulations, permit refugees to transfer assets which they have
brought into its territory, to another country where they have
been admitted for the purposes of resettlement.
2. A Contracting State shall give sympathetic consideration to
the application of refugees for permission to transfer assets
wherever they may be and which are necessary for their resettlement
in another country to which they have been admitted.
Article 31. - Refugees unlawfully in the country of refuge
1. The Contracting States shall not impose penalties, on account
of their illegal entry or presence, on refugees who, coming directly
from a territory where their life or freedom was threatened in
the sense of article 1, enter or are present in their territory
without authorization, provided they present themselves without
delay to the authorities and show good cause for their illegal
entry or presence.
2. The Contracting States shall not apply to the movements of
such refugees restrictions other than those which are necessary
and such restrictions shall only be applied until their status
in the country is regularized or they obtain admission into another
country. The Contracting States shall allow such refugees a reasonable
period and all the necessary facilities to obtain admission into
another country.
Article 32. - Expulsion
1. The Contracting States shall not expel a refugee lawfully
in their territory save on grounds of national security or public
order.
2. The expulsion of such a refugee shall be only in pursuance
of a decision reached in accordance with due process of law. Except
where compelling reasons of national security otherwise require,
the refugee shall be allowed to submit evidence to clear himself,
and to appeal to and be represented for the purpose before competent
authority or a person or persons specially designated by the competent
authority.
3. The Contracting States shall allow such a refugee a reasonable
period within which to seek legal admission into another country.
The Contracting States reserve the right to apply during that
period such internal measures as they may deem necessary.
Article 33. - Prohibition of expulsion or return ("refoulement")
1. No Contracting State shall expel or return ("refouler") a
refugee in any manner whatsoever to the frontiers of territories
where his life or freedom would be threatened on account of his
race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social
group or political opinion.
2. The benefit of the present provision may not, however, be
claimed by a refugee whom there are reasonable grounds for regarding
as a danger to the security of the country in which he is, or
who, having been convicted by a final judgement of a particularly
serious crime, constitutes a danger to the community of that country.
Article 34. - Naturalization
The Contracting States shall as far as possible facilitate the
assimilation and naturalization of refugees. They shall in particular
make every effort to expedite naturalization proceedings and to
reduce as far as possible the charges and costs of such proceedings.
CHAPTER VI
EXECUTORY AND TRANSITORY PROVISIONS
Article 35. - Co-operation of the national authorities
with the United Nations
1. The Contracting States undertake to co-operate with the Office
of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or any other
agency of the United Nations which may succeed it, in the exercise
of its functions, and shall in particular facilitate its duty
of supervising the application of the provisions of this Convention.
2. In order to enable the Office of the High Commissioner or
any other agency of the United Nations which may succeed it, to
make reports to the competent organs of the United Nations, the
Contracting States undertake to provide them in the appropriate
form with information and statistical data requested concerning:
(a) The condition of refugees,
(b) The implementation of this Convention, and
(c) Laws, regulations and decrees which are, or may hereafter
be, in force relating to refugees.
Article 36. - Information on national legislation
The Contracting States shall communicate to the Secretary-General
of the United Nations the laws and regulations which they may
adopt to ensure the application of this Convention.
Article 37. - Relation to previous conventions
Without prejudice to article 28, paragraph 2, of this Convention,
this Convention replaces, as between Parties to it, the Arrangements
of 5 July 1922, 31 May 1924, 12 May 1926, 30 June 1928 and 30
July 1935, the Conventions of 28 October 1933 and 10 February
1938, the Protocol of 14 September 1939 and the Agreement of 15
October 1946.
CHAPTER VII
FINAL CLAUSES
Article 38. - Settlement of disputes
Any dispute between Parties to this Convention relating to its
interpretation or application, which cannot be settled by other
means, shall be referred to the International Court of Justice
at the request of any one of the parties to the dispute.
Article 39. - Signature, ratification and accession
1. This Convention shall be opened for signature at Geneva on
28 July 1951 and shall thereafter be deposited with the Secretary-General
of the United Nations. It shall be open for signature at the European
Office of the United Nations from 28 July to 31 August 1951 and
shall be re-opened for signature at the Headquarters of the United
Nations from 17 September 1951 to 31 December 1952.
2. This Convention shall be open for signature on behalf of all
States Members of the United Nations, and also on behalf of any
other State invited to attend the Conference of Plenipotentiaries
on the Status of Refugees and Stateless Persons or to which an
invitation to sign will have been addressed by the General Assembly.
It shall be ratified and the instruments of ratification shall
be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
3. This Convention shall be open from 28 July 1951 for accession
by the States referred to in paragraph 2 of this article. Accession
shall be effected by the deposit of an instrument of accession
with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Article 40. - Territorial application clause
1. Any State may, at the time of signature, ratification or accession,
declare that this Convention shall extend to all or any of the
territories for the international relations of which it is responsible.
Such a declaration shall take effect when the Convention enters
into force for the State concerned.
2. At any time thereafter any such extension shall be made by
notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United
Nations and shall take effect as from the ninetieth day after
the day of receipt by the Secretary- General of the United Nations
of this notification, or as from the date of entry into force
of the Convention for the State concerned, whichever is the later.
3. With respect to those territories to which this Convention
is not extended at the time of signature, ratification or accession,
each State concerned shall consider the possibility of taking
the necessary steps in order to extend the application of this
Convention to such territories, subject, where necessary for constitutional
reasons, to the consent of the Governments of such territories.
Article 41. - Federal clause
In the case of a Federal or non-unitary State, the following
provisions shall apply:
(a) With respect to those articles of this Convention that come
within the legislative jurisdiction of the federal legislative
authority, the obligations of the Federal Government shall to
this extent be the same as those of parties which are not Federal
States;
(b) With respect to those articles of this Convention that come
within the legislative jurisdiction of constituent States, provinces
or cantons which are not, under the constitutional system of the
Federation, bound to take legislative action, the Federal Government
shall bring such articles with a favourable recommendation to
the notice of the appropriate authorities of States, provinces
or cantons at the earliest possible moment;
(c) A Federal State Party to this Convention shall, at the request
of any other Contracting State transmitted through the Secretary-General
of the United Nations, supply a statement of the law and practice
of the Federation and its constituent units in regard to any particular
provision of the Convention showing the extent to which effect
has been given to that provision by legislative or other action.
Article 42. - Reservations
1. At the time of signature, ratification or accession, any State
may make reservations to articles of the Convention other than
to articles 1, 3, 4, 16 (1), 33, 36-46 inclusive.
2. Any State making a reservation in accordance with paragraph
I of this article may at any time withdraw the reservation by
a communication to that effect addressed to the Secretary-General
of the United Nations.
Article 43. - Entry into force
1. This Convention shall come into force on the ninetieth day
following the day of deposit of the sixth instrument of ratification
or accession.
2. For each State ratifying or acceding to the Convention after
the deposit of the sixth instrument of ratification or accession,
the Convention shall enter into force on the ninetieth day following
the date of deposit by such State of its instrument of ratification
or accession.
Article 44. - Denunciation
1. Any Contracting State may denounce this Convention at any
time by a notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the
United Nations.
2. Such denunciation shall take effect for the Contracting State
concerned one year from the date upon which it is received by
the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
3. Any State which has made a declaration or notification under
article 40 may, at any time thereafter, by a notification to the
Secretary-General of the United Nations, declare that the Convention
shall cease to extend to such territory one year after the date
of receipt of the notification by the Secretary-General. Article
45. - Revision
1. Any Contracting State may request revision of this Convention
at any time by a notification addressed to the Secretary-General
of the United Nations.
2. The General Assembly of the United Nations shall recommend
the steps, if any, to be taken in respect of such request.
Article 46. -Notifications by the Secretary-General of
the United Nations
The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall inform all
Members of the United Nations and non-member States referred to
in article 39:
(a) Of declarations and notifications in accordance with section
B of article 1;
(b) Of signatures, ratifications and accessions in accordance
with article 39;
(c) Of declarations and notifications in accordance with article
40;
(d) Of reservations and withdrawals in accordance with article
42;
(e) Of the date on which this Convention will come into force
in accordance with article 43;
(f) Of denunciations and notifications in accordance with article
44;
(g) Of requests for revision in accordance with article 45.
IN FAITH WHEREOF the undersigned, duly authorized, have signed
this Convention on behalf of their respective Governments.
DONE at Geneva, this twenty-eighth day of July, one thousand
nine hundred and fifty-one, in a single copy, of which the English
and French texts are equally authentic and which shall remain
deposited in the archives of the United Nations, and certified
true copies of which shall be delivered to all Members of the
United Nations and to the non-member States referred to in article
39.
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