Legal Instruments
Web Resources
Selected web-based information resources (for more, search the FMO website)
- The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees in various languages:
- Convención sobre el estatuto de los refugiados (Spanish)
- Convention and protocol relating to the status of refugees (English)
- Convention and protocol relating to the status of refugees (Arabic)
- Convention and protocol relating to the status of refugees (Armenian)
- Konvencija i Protokol o Statusu Izbjeglica (Bosnian)
- Konvencija o Statusu Izbjeglica Iz 1951(Croatian)
- Axdiga Meeqaamka Qaxootiga (Somali)
- Convention and protocol relating to the status of refugees (Russian)
- Convention and protocol relating to the status of refugees (Greek)
- Convention relative au statut des réfugiés du 28 juillet 1951; Protocole relatif au statut des réfugiés du 31 janvier 1967 (French)
- Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention vom 28. Juli 1951, Protokoll über die Rechtsstellung der Flüchtlinge von 1967 und Liste der Vertragsstaaten (German)
- The Refugee Law Reader: Cases, Documents and Materials (5th ed.), published by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, is a comprehensive on-line model curriculum for the study of the complex and rapidly evolving field of international refugee law. The Fifth Edition introduces an expanded and universal scope to The Reader by providing sections on international and regional frameworks of refugee law, covering Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Adapted language versions will soon be available in French, Russian and Spanish.
- Travaux préparatoires (background documents from the Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Status of Refugees and Stateless Persons)
