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Refugee Convention at 75: Britain owes Palestine an answer
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Tuesday 28 July marked 75 years since the 1951 Refugee Convention was adopted at a United Nations conference in Geneva, with Britain among the states that negotiated and shaped it.
A 'temporary' exceptionThe Refugee Convention established a universal framework for refugee protection, overseen by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Britain often invokes the Refugee Convention and international law to criticise other states and defend its own record.
The Refugee Convention was born of the conviction that displacement demands responsibility.
Seventy-five years after the Refugee Convention was adopted, Britain owes Palestine an answer.