Emergency Assistance for South African Refugee Students

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Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1977.

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3 subjects

Educational Assistance South African Refugees Student Refugees

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6 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms that humanitarian assistance by the international community to all those persecuted under repressive and discriminatory legislation in South Africa, Namibia and Southern Rhodesia is appropriate and essential;

Recognizes the urgent need to organize an effective programme of international assistance to help in dealing with the recent South African student refugee problem in countries bordering South Africa;

Requests the Secretary-General, as a matter of urgency, to consult with the Governments of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland and the liberation movements

concerned with a view to taking immediate steps to organize and provide appropriate emergency financial and other forms of assistance for the care, subsistence and education of these refugee students;

Urges all States to respond generously to any appeals which the Secretary-General might make for assistance for these refugees;

Calls upon the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the United Nations Development Programme, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Trust Fund for South Africa, the United Nations Educational and Training Programme for Southern Africa and other United Nations bodies and organs, as may be appropriate, to co-operate fully with the Secretary-General in the implementation of the programme of assistance;

Requests the Secretary-General to keep the situation under review and to report to the General Assembly as and when necessary.

·19 Resolution 217 A (III).

r,o Resolution 2106 A (XX), annex.

,,I United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 500, No. 7310, p. 95.

r,2 Jbid., vol. 596, No. 8638, p. 261.

r,:l International Labour Office, Official Bulletin, vol. L VIII, 1975, Series A, No. 1, Convention No. 143.

04 Ibid., Recommendation No. 151.

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