Still significant and still functioning wearily, the United Nations Refugee Convention of 1951 has suffered abuse, subversion and neglect from state parties. (Consider, in this regard the 1933 Convention relating to the International Status of Refugees, applicable to Russian, Armenian and “assimilated” refugees.) The workforce has been reduced by 30%The Convention has also been assailed for its skimpiness about certain details. The applicable refugee definition ignores the genuinely desperate claims of those who wish to flee conditions of famine, starvation or natural disasters. The Convention has another weakness in not providing a mechanism or a means by which displacement can be addressed through international cooperation.