Refugees

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  • Population fleeing their home country for political or other reasons. For persons displaced within their own country, use DISPLACED PERSONS.

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      Refugees

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        Refugees

          1492 Archival description results for Refugees

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          R5627/20A/12136/8330 · File · 1934-1944
          Part of League of Nations Refugees Mixed Archival Group (Nansen Fonds)

          File contains:

          • the instruments of ratification of the Convention on International Status of Refugees
          • correspondence of 1934 and 1936 from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paris
          • a letter of 20 November 1942 from the Provisional Government of the French Republic in Vichy denunciating this Convention with the exception of articles one and two and of chapter XI
          • letters dated 8 November 1944 from the French Minister for Foreign Affairs Georges Bidault to Herbert Emerson, League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and to S. Lester, Secretary-General of the League of Nations, cancelling the denunciations made by the Provisional French Government in Vichy of the Agreement of 30 June 1928 as well as of the Convention of 28 October 1933, and restoring the status quo ante for Nansen Refugees, and explaining the desire of the French Government to extend similar system to Spanish Republican refugees.
          R5627/20A/12222/8330 · File · 1934-1940
          Part of League of Nations Refugees Mixed Archival Group (Nansen Fonds)

          File contains:

          • the instrument of accession of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Convention relating to the international status of Refugees
          • a League of Nations document C.L.79.1940.XII relating to the application to certain British Overseas Territories of this Convention on the International Status of Refugees, as well as of the Convention concerning the Status of Refugees coming from Germany signed at Geneva on 10 February 1938, as modified by the Additional Protocol of the 14 September 1939.