Information comment: UNHCR welcomes new asylum law in Chad – Chad

This news remark is attributable to Millicent Mutuli, Director of the UNHCR Regional Bureau for West and Central Africa

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, commends The Republic of Chad for adopting its first-at any time asylum regulation, which will greatly enhance defense for the almost 480,000 refugees currently hosted in the country. Adopted 23 December 2020, the legislation guarantees refugees and asylum-seekers basic protections, which includes freedom of movement, the correct to function and accessibility to healthcare, education, and justice.

The passage of this regulation would make Chad just one of the first nations around the world in the location to satisfy a pledge designed all through previous year’s World wide Refugee Discussion board in Geneva to improve authorized, bodily and content safety of refugees and asylum seekers.

The regulation will also guideline the institution of an productive countrywide asylum method, which is currently being pursued under the Asylum Ability Help Team. The regulation conforms to worldwide requirements enshrined in the 1951 Refugee Convention and its protocol and the 1969 OAU Convention on Refugees.

Chad, one of the largest refugee host nations in Africa, now provides safety to extra than 915,000 refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced people, and Chadian returnees. UNHCR applauds the Chadian government’s willingness to keep its borders open to these who find refuge.

For far more facts on this matter, please get hold of:

In Chad: Aristophane Ngargoune, [email protected], +235 6559 3010
In Chad: Simplice Kpandji, [email protected], +235 6859 3060
In Geneva: Shabia Mantoo [email protected], +41 79 337 7650