Amendment No. 4 | Doc. 13460 | 02 October 2014

Resettlement of refugees: promoting greater solidarity

Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons

Origin - 2014 - November Standing Committee

In the draft resolution, replace paragraph 11 with the following paragraph:

"The Assembly highlights that resettlement is not a migration management issue but is a humanitarian decision deriving from member States’ international responsibility to protect any individual who satisfies the UNHCR’s definitions of persons of concern."

Explanatory note

This amendment corrects the sentence which previously stipulated that there is an "international legal obligation to protect persons of concern", which is legally incorrect - member states have to protect individuals from refoulement, and once they are in their jurisdiction.