Refugee act of 1979: hearings before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session, on H.R. 2816 .... |
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Page 346 - Accession shall be effected by the deposit of an instrument of accession with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Page 347 - Nations. 2. For each State ratifying or acceding to the Convention after the deposit of the twenty-second instrument of ratification or accession...
Page 411 - Convention as any person who: ... owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion...
Page 351 - To the Senate of the United States: With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification...
Page 347 - Convention by a written notification to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Denunciation shall take effect one year after the date of receipt of the notification by the Secretary-General.
Page 358 - Protocol, of which the Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts are equally authentic, signed by the President of the General Assembly and by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, shall be deposited in the archives of the Secretariat of the United Nations. The Secretary-General will transmit certified copies thereof to all States Members of the United Nations and to the other States referred to in article V above.
Page 346 - 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 authority, the obligations of the federal Government shall to this extent be the same as those of Contracting States which are not federal States...
Page 44 - ... well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion...
Page 344 - The expulsion of such 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.
Page 359 - Act adopted, for the purpose of our refugee admissions program, the definition of "refugee" contained in the United Nations Convention and Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees. The definition which may be found in Section 101 (a) (42) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as amended by the Refugee Act, is as follows: 'The term "refugee...