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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10429

29 July 2011
GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/jha
Geneva convention on refugees celebrates its 60th anniversary

Brussels, 28/07/2011 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 28 July, the Geneva Convention on Refugees celebrated its 60th anniversary. Immediately after the Second World War and the Shoah, the United Nations convention was adopted in Geneva on 28 July 1951, defining refugee status and modalities whereby a state must grant refugee status to those making the request, as well as the rights and duties of those persons. The 1951 convention on the status of refugees has since become the main legal...